Aaron Harries

Faith, family, country and bacon. And wheat. Views are my own or those of the voices in my head.

[Aaron Harries @aarhar]

Emblematic of #wheattour26. Most of the original tilllers dead from March freeze. Plants recovered as best as they could in drought situation. Later freezes cause white sterile heads. Hot and windy this week. Not many lives left.

[Aaron Harries @aarhar]

@SiekerSales Any freeze damage?

[Dave Rubin @RubinReport]

Which Panican wants to hand me my “I told you so” award?

Trump has been running the same negotiation playbook forever. Pressure, escalation, chaos… then leverage a deal. We’ve watched it happen again and again. This wasn’t complicated. It was basic pattern recognition.

While some people were panicking, others were paying attention.

Now we move to Phase 2.

Iran is largely neutralized. The Strait is reopening. The war is de-escalating. Markets are already reacting.

That’s not a small win—that’s a global reset.

This forces movement everywhere else. Russia and Ukraine get pulled closer to a real negotiation. China has to think twice about Taiwan when the U.S. just proved it will apply overwhelming pressure when it matters. And for the first time in decades, there is a real path to stepping back from endless Middle East entanglements.

Look at the region. It’s no longer just Israel. You’re seeing alignment across countries that historically were nowhere near each other.

The world is safer today than it was yesterday—and it’s about to get even safer over the next few months as this locks in.

And yes, let’s be very clear about this:

This happened because of Donald Trump.

Not the pundits. Not the podcasters. Not the panic merchants. Trump.

Now comes the real opportunity.

With global stability improving, we can finally refocus inward at full speed. Immigration, housing, affordability, healthcare, infrastructure, AI, rebuilding American strength where it actually matters.

We are entering a new American era—economically, technologically, and yes, even in space exploration. This is what the start of a new frontier feels like.

So here’s the assignment:

Put your phone down. Go build something. Start a family. Create. Get outside. Do something real.

Stop listening to the Panicans.

Onward 🇺🇸

[KT McFarland @realKTMcFarland]

USA is in a vibe shift. It's now the age of heroes...and miracles. US hockey team takes Gold, US Military rescues pilots in Iran, Artemis II travels to Far Side of the Moon. Whether it's on ice, in air, or in space, Americans can do the impossible.

[Aaron Harries @aarhar]

This.👇

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

Trump is never backed into a corner. Trump never bluffs and he doesn't cave. How hard is this to understand? You all have had 11 years to figure this out and he wrote a freaking book on it.

Trump starts every deal at the furtherest point he is willing to go. He will deal towards a more compromised position. If the other side gives up things, he will give up some of the stuff he doesnt really care about. (Idiots call this TACO instead of deal making either because they are too stupid to understand it, or think others are too stupid and they want to push a negative talking pt about the ultimate deal made.)

Both sides continue until a deal is struck.

If they cant come to any agreement, Trump will revert to his original position and go with that.

Iran has 7 hours and 30 minutes to make a deal or they get blown back to the stone age.

So far, the deal they are trying to make isn't enough for Trump to move from his original position if reports are correct.

They need to give him something or he is fine with blowing them to hell.

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

“America is DECISIVELY WINNING the war on Iran in every measurable respect.”

@CynicalPublius is correct. We are but @POTUS and PM @netanyahu shouldn’t stop short of a “decisive win.” That may take weeks but the mistake of 1991 cannot be repeated.

[Aaron Harries @aarhar]

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[Aaron Harries @aarhar]

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[Aaron Harries @aarhar]

Understanding the Big Beautiful Bill and the Laws That Surround It https://t.co/7N6SUG0efS

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

I’ve seen a few claims making the rounds on the Big Beautiful Bill that require correction.

The first is that it doesn’t “codify the DOGE cuts.” A reconciliation bill, which is a budget bill that passes with 50 votes, is limited by senate rules to “mandatory” spending only — eg Medicaid and Food Stamps. The senate rules prevent it from cutting “discretionary” spending — eg the Department of Education or federal grants. The DOGE cuts are overwhelmingly discretionary, not mandatory. The bill saves more than 1.6 TRILLION in mandatory spending, including the largest-ever welfare reform. A remarkable achievement.

I’ve also seen claims the bill increases the deficit. This lie is based on a CBO accounting gimmick. Income tax rates from the 2017 tax cut are set to expire in September. They were always planned to be permanent. CBO says maintaining *current* rates adds to the deficit, but by definition leaving these income tax rates unchanged cannot add one penny to the deficit. The bill’s spending cuts REDUCE the deficit against the current law baseline, which is the only correct baseline to use.

Another fantastically false claim is that the bill spends trillions of dollars. This is just completely invented out of whole cloth. This is not a ten year budget bill—it doesn’t “fund” almost any operations of government, which are funded in the annual budget bills (which this is not). In other words, if this bill passed, but the annual budget bill did not, there would be no government funding. Under the math that critics are using, if we passed a one paragraph reconciliation bill that cut simply 50 billion in food stamp spending, they would say the bill “added” trillions in spending and debt because they are counting ALL the projected federal spending that exists entirely outside the scope of this legislation, which is of course preposterous. The only funding in the bill is for the President’s border and defense priorities, while enacting a net spending cut of over 1.6 TRILLION dollars.

The bill has two fiscal components: a massive tax cut and a massive spending cut.

[Brian Kilmeade @kilmeade]

Please please watch this:

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

My initial reaction to the Trump/Zelensky spat was based on the short clip. I've had a chance to watch the entire 53-minute press conference with Zelensky and Trump.

It's painful but I take back what I said earlier. Zelensky decided to attack Vance unnecessarily. He totally messed this up. Yes, Vance played to the gallery afterwards but he was also correct: litigating this stuff in front of the media was really dumb.

Really poor from Zelensky - I hope he can see sense, apologise and get a deal for his country. This was not smart.

[Aaron Harries @aarhar]

RT @hughhewitt: Everyone who wants to comment on today has to watch this entire tape and hopefully realize that at approximately the 38 min…

[Aaron Harries @aarhar]

@KSUWheat @KStateRE

[Aaron Harries @aarhar]

If you’re gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. Quote from a friend.