@TheHALOTrust If you want anyone to take your cause seriously, stop associating yourselves wirh this entitled, whining man-child. I wouldnt donate one penny to anything he is representing.
@Keir_Starmer You did jack shit...you get to dictate NOTHING! The United States handled this all alone, and we will remember how you did NOTHING to support your supposed ally. What is it you limey bastards say...fuck off? Yeah...fuck off back to your hole, you cowardly toad.
@MeghansMole I cannot understand this choice of outfit. She's worn some horrible things, but this is one of the worst. She looks like a spinach popsicle on a licorice stick.
Imagine you're about to fire an employee who's been stealing from you for years.
You don't send in the guy from legal with a stack of complaints. Nah, you send in the nicest manager in the building. The one everybody likes. The one who always gives second chances.
And you tell him: "Go sit with them. See if they'll stop."
But you already know they won't stop. Then, why bother? well, because now the entire office watched the nice guy try, and the entire office watched them spit in his face, while pocketing a stapler before ducking out early.
That's what Trump just did with JD Vance.
Vance is the most diplomatic voice in the administration. Iran literally requested him by name. He represents the faction inside the US government that genuinely wanted to exhaust every option before escalation. Democrats, Republicans, and a huge chunk of the American public share that instinct.
So Trump sent him. Not because he thought Iran would fold. Because he needed the world to watch Iran refuse the one guy everybody agreed was fair.
And now? Nobody can say the US sent hawks to sabotage peace. Nobody can say Iran wasn't given a real chance. The man who wanted peace the most walked into that room, and Tehran flipped the table with the cameras rolling.
Twenty minutes later Trump announced a full naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
And if you still had any doubt about what Iran actually wants... they told you. Out loud. At the negotiating table.
They refused to stop funding Hamas. They refused to stop funding Hezbollah. They refused to stop funding the Houthis.
They refused to stop enriching uranium, and they refused to open the Strait without charging a $2 million toll per ship in crypto, like some dark web scammer.
They didn't just reject peace. They handed the world a signed confession that the regime's real priorities are nukes, terrorism, and extortion. In that order.
Iran didn't lose a negotiation. Iran lost the argument.
Hello, Europeans. The first thing you need to understand about the rant I'm about to utter is that I'm not MAGA, not a Trumpite, but a libertarian who has in the past nevertheless been strongly supportive of US military presence overseas. Because I want the wars that defend this country to be fought in somebody else's country, as far away from me as possible with a nice big ocean in the way.
Also relevant: I have a history of having lived in Europe and traveled there extensively. I was at one time bilingual in English and Spanish, and have been passably fluent in Italian and French as well. I could probably still find my way around London and Rome and central Paris reasonably well. So if you're tempted to tell yourselves that I'm some kind of parochial American hick, abandon that hope.
All that was set-up. So that, when I tell you that almost the entirety of the US electorate, not just Trump supporters, is increasingly fed up with your shit, take me seriously.
We've been cleaning up your messes and keeping the sea lanes open since 1917. And that was for you, not us - we, being very close to resource self-sufficient, don't need that investment so much. We've spent enormous amounts of blood and treasure on keeping you safe. We risked nuclear hellfire on our own cities for nearly 50 years to keep Soviet tanks from rolling through the Fulda Gap.
Even since the Cold War ended, we've subsidized your socialist-playpen welfare states and disastrous immigration policies by taking the need to maintain militaries more effective than a sack of wet farts off the table.
Now we've come looking for help keeping a bunch of rabid Islamic fanatics from getting nuclear weapons that are a clear and present danger to all of you even more than they are to us, and what do we hear?
"Waah! It's another Republican president we don't like, just like the last half dozen of them! So we're going to sulk in a corner, except when we're biting at your ankles with crap like airspace restrictions."
No. No, we're not going to take this anymore. It's not just conservatives who have had enough, it's moderates and people who used to be strong supporters of liberal internationalism.
Our citizen's willingness to pay higher taxes to protect you was upward-bounded by your gratitude. Now that we know your gratitude has effectively gone to zero, so does our willingness.
Don't expect this to change if the Democrats take power here. They are much less liberal-internationalist than Republicans now. While they might make mouth noises that soothe you, their overriding concern is the gaping, insatiable maw of their income transfer programs. They'll sacrifice subsidizing Europe's playpen socialism to feed their domestic version in a heartbeat. And there is no longer any significant Democratic constituency to argue against that.
In truth, three decades after the Cold War ended there is no American constituency at all for the massive subsidies you get. It frankly surprises me they lasted this long, that we were this patient with your cowardice and your bitchy whining.
This moment has been a long time coming. It's not Donald Trump sinking the transatlantic alliance, it is absolutely you.
Yeah...no thanks. Ben Shapiro is no Charlie Kirk. Charlie was effective because of his faith and true generosity. Honestly...while I like Shapiro, he just doesnt have it.
#EnoughIsEnough#CharlieKirk#BenShapiro
"It's your fault I hurt you. You said things that make me mad. Just don't say things that make me mad."
- a lot of people on the Left today, sounding a lot like an abusive spouse.
Conservatives say that guns are for sport, hunting, and self defense because that’s what they use them for.
Liberals say that guns are for killing people because that’s what they use them for.
Democrats have dehumanized Conservatives. It started with Obama calling us bitter Americans who cling to our guns and our religion. It was Hillary Clinton calling us an irredeemable basket of deplorables. It was Joe Biden calling us the dregs of society. It was Maxine Waters telling them to absolutely harass us in restaurants and grocery stores. They called us Nazis and Hitler. They called us homophobes and bigots and racists and xenophobes. I hold all them responsible. They all have blood on their hands today.
He had kids.
They didn’t care—they killed him anyway.
Because they couldn’t win an argument against him.
Congratulations you just created THE NEW REPUBLICANS.
You might not like this version.
Yeah, heres the thing, though...I REFUSE to be cowed. Come for me over my politics, and its gnna be a freedom seed fafo situation real quick. #EnoughIsEnough#WalkAway#FarLeftTerrorism
NOW: Scott Jennings gets emotional talking about the shooting of his friend Charlie Kirk...pointing to how dangerously divided America has become.
“I sat in this room last summer, the night they shot the president, and now they shot Charlie.”
“And I’m not sure it’s safe to be an outspoken conservative walking around in America right now.”
��There’s a lot of people out there who are in absolute shock and are horrified by this. And I don’t know what’s going to happen other than to tell you that this nation is in desperate need of prayer and some kind of an intervention.”
“And so I don’t know what’s going to happen to Charlie.”
“All I can really think about is his poor wife and those two babies. And so I think the best thing any of us can do right now is just pray for his recovery.”
“God help us, we are in a bad place.”