UnbotheredModerate

Recovering savior. This is how I use my Political Science degree. Feminist, Anti-Racist, Queer-Ally, white guy. Get money out of politics. Do your part.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

Moderates resolve political conflicts.
If you give up on persuading them and kick them out of your coalition then you are choosing coercion over democracy.
Nothing good comes from using the militant fringe to overpower the rest of the country. #AntiPartisanModerate

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

This is the Iran War update we have been waiting for.
Keep the pressure on.

[Ben Hart @BenHart_Freedom]

IRAN WAR UPDATE & WHY THE PRICE OF OIL KEEPS DROPPING

The media has not been covering this.

According to the U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND, approximately 1,000 commercial vessels have crossed through the Strait of Hormuz in the last two months.

Iran has not been able to do anything about it. And commercial traffic through the Strait is slowly increasing.

Meanwhile, the U.S. blockade on Iran's use Strait of Hormuz is costing the Iran Regime $500 MILLION per day. The Regime's entire annual budget is about $56 BILLION. The Regime can no longer pay its soldiers or security police.

Mass protests against the Regime are now starting up again in cities across Iran, as the people are now sensing the Regime can's do much about this.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced that the $24 BILLION in Iranian assets that we have frozen will be used to reimburse and compensate countries in the region Iran keeps hitting with its missiles and drones.

The damage Iran has done to airports, power grids, buildings, and infrastructure, as well as casualties inflicted by Iran in the region, will be billed to Iran's account.

Iran has been saying any deal Iran strikes with the U.S. hinges on the U.S. unfreezing $24 BILLION in Iran assets.

Welp, so much for that idea. This $24 BILLION will be used to compensate Iran's victims in the region.

There is no reason for the U.S. to negotiate anymore with Iran's Regime.

It's quite cheap for the U.S. Navy to keep patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, escorting ships in and out. Our Navy has to be somewhere. Might as well be there, conducting occasional target practice on whatever is left of Iran's military capabilities.

No one fears the Iran Regime anymore. It's proven itself to be a toothless tiger.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Arab World has joined with the United States and Israel in an alliance against the Iran Regime, which is now completely isolated.

That's pretty amazing. Thanks to President Trump, the rest of the Arab world is now allied with Israel.

Who would have thought that possible?

We should allow Israel to do whatever it wants to do to the Iran Regime. We should also continue arming the Kurds and pro-freedom groups inside Iran.

When Epic Fury started, the prediction was that oil would rise above $200 per barrel.

This has not happened. Oil is around $90 a barrel and will continue to drop.

The reason we have not seen anything close to $200 a barrel is the United States has ramped up its oil production.

Thanks to President Trump, the United States is a net oil and energy exporter.

With Trump's arrest of Venezuela's Communist dictator Nicolas Maduro, the United States also now has an oil production partnership with the new government of Venezuela, which as the world's largest oil reserves.

Oil production by Venezuela will only continue to increase.

Trump has also chased China out of Panama. China is no longer running the Panama Canal. We are.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Kuwait are increasing their pipeline capacity to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, further rendering Iran irrelevant.

Only about 20% of Iran's people are practicing Muslims. The strange theocratic ideology that has been imposed on the Iranian people for 47 years is an alien minority force.

We can just continue to watch the Iran Regime implode financially under this economic pressure we've imposed.

Eventually, the IRGC leadership and Mullahs will receive the Gaddafi treatment.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

For weeks, Irish politicians have dodged questions about the refinery in Ireland supplying Russia’s war machine.

So I tracked down government minister Niall Collins at a farming show.

He refuses to back sanctions & his stance was worse than I expected.

Avoidance.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

Graham Platner is disabled, according to the VA.
He is clearly cheating the system.
And he's insulting other veterans in his spare time.

[Judge Glock @judgeglock]

Wait Graham Platner got a 100% disability rating from the VA? Why isn’t that the biggest scandal of the whole campaign?

In another era a clearly healthy young man running around with the same rating as a paralyzed veteran would be an outrage even if he wasn’t running for Senate

[Judge Glock @judgeglock]

Wait Graham Platner got a 100% disability rating from the VA? Why isn’t that the biggest scandal of the whole campaign?

In another era a clearly healthy young man running around with the same rating as a paralyzed veteran would be an outrage even if he wasn’t running for Senate

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 7, 2002

As billions in international aid — including your taxpayer dollars — continued pouring into the Palestinian Authority, a Kuwaiti newspaper dropped a bombshell.

On this day in 2002, Al-Watan reported that Yasser Arafat had siphoned $5.1 million in Arab donor money, explicitly earmarked for the Palestinian people, and deposited it directly into his personal bank account.

This was Arafat’s standard operating procedure:

- Arafat’s personal fortune was estimated between $1 billion and $3 billion (some intelligence assessments reached $6.5 billion), stashed in secret accounts in Switzerland, France, and offshore havens.

- A leaked 1997 Palestinian Legislative Council investigation found that 40% of the entire annual budget — $326 million that year alone — had disappeared into corruption and mismanagement. Arafat suppressed the report.

- His economic advisor Mohammed Rashid took stolen funds and invested them in the Jordan Cement Company to personally profit from the reconstruction boom caused by the Intifada.

- Arafat and his inner circle ran monopolies on cement, fuel, cigarettes, flour, gravel, and cars — squeezing huge profits from ordinary goods.

While his wife Suha Arafat (pictured below) lived lavishly in Paris (spending over $100,000 per month on designer clothes, shoes, and luxury living), Arafat treated EU, US, Arab, and UNRWA aid as his personal ATM.

Billions flowed in after Oslo. Very little went to building real institutions or prosperity.

Arafat died one of the richest men in the world — having turned a "national liberation movement" into a criminal empire.

The man who posed as the humble revolutionary in a keffiyeh was, in reality, one of the most successful kleptocrats of the modern era.

This was betrayal on an industrial scale; theft to a degree that would make Daniel Ocean blush.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

I'm not sure the Irish understand the damage the recent story of their pumping economic support into Putin's war machine is doing to their reputation in Central/East Europe. The idea of Ireland standing on the side of the oppressed against imperialists is gone, probably forever.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING; A Hamas operative from Gaza, granted asylum in Greece, was just arrested in Crete.

He’d built a bomb lab in an Athens apartment, trained in explosives in Gaza and Malaysia, and is tied to four others held in Cyprus. He confessed he was waiting for instructions to attack Jews.

Greek police are checking whether the target was the Crown Iris, the Israeli cruise ship arriving Tuesday. The same one mobs greeted last year with throat-slitting gestures.

[Traveling israel @travelingisrae1]

What the West Gets Wrong About Jihad

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Great article.

“ The UN has become one of the most dangerous instruments in modern geopolitics. Authoritarian regimes are using the UN’s prestige to normalise their behavior, conceal their crimes and peddle anti-Western propaganda. It should terrify all of us that the world’s most trusted watchdog has been successfully leveraged as a PR firm for tyrants.”

https://t.co/scgJQ6REmR

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

We have been an easy target for immigration fraud and aid fraud for far too long.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

It’s all coming out

We just figured out how Minnesota has been taken over by Muslims

“Nearly half of all immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Twin Cities were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud”

This is an INVASION of illegals

“Over the course of the operation, our officers found indication of fraud, non-compliance, or public safety and national security concerns in nearly, a little less than 50% of the cases interviewed.”

“Focusing on a list of over a thousand target cases involving more than 900 individuals, our officers encountered blatant marriage fraud, visa overstays, people claiming to work at businesses that can't be found, forged documents, abuse of the H-1B visa system, abuse of the F-1 visas, and many other discrepancies.”

It’s a Muslim takeover

The Twin Cities have one of the largest Somali populations in the US concentrated in Minneapolis. Somalis are predominantly Muslim

These are the most common violations found

- Blatant marriage fraud
- Visa overstays
- Forged documents
- Claiming employment at nonexistent businesses
- H-1B
- Abuse of F-1 visas
- Fake death certificates

These immigrants aren’t here to assimilate, they are here to scam us for everything we have and then takeover our country

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

It’s all coming out

We just figured out how Minnesota has been taken over by Muslims

“Nearly half of all immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Twin Cities were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud”

This is an INVASION of illegals

“Over the course of the operation, our officers found indication of fraud, non-compliance, or public safety and national security concerns in nearly, a little less than 50% of the cases interviewed.”

“Focusing on a list of over a thousand target cases involving more than 900 individuals, our officers encountered blatant marriage fraud, visa overstays, people claiming to work at businesses that can't be found, forged documents, abuse of the H-1B visa system, abuse of the F-1 visas, and many other discrepancies.”

It’s a Muslim takeover

The Twin Cities have one of the largest Somali populations in the US concentrated in Minneapolis. Somalis are predominantly Muslim

These are the most common violations found

- Blatant marriage fraud
- Visa overstays
- Forged documents
- Claiming employment at nonexistent businesses
- H-1B
- Abuse of F-1 visas
- Fake death certificates

These immigrants aren’t here to assimilate, they are here to scam us for everything we have and then takeover our country

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Does Norway support terror? Walking through downtown Oslo, I came across a disturbing mural – apparently sponsored by the Oslo National Academy of Arts, a publicly funded institution – glorifying the iconography of violent extremism. The display featured Hamas’s inverted red triangle, a rifle, a keffiyeh, and the image of a Lufthansa civilian aircraft placed in front of a Marxist militant from the PFLP, a group responsible for multiple plane hijackings. Behind it all: smoke plumes meant to evoke an Israeli airstrike on Gaza. This was not “solidarity.” It was a celebration of terror against civilians, presented as if it were synonymous with the Palestinian cause. It is a perfect snapshot of what has gone wrong in parts of Western Europe: the normalization, and even celebration, of grotesque symbols that collapse Palestinian identity into plane hijackings, rifles, and failed communist militant fantasies from the 1970s and the contemporary Islamist disasters from the present.

Who benefits from repeatedly associating Palestinians with plane hijackings, AK‑47s, and washed‑up extremists? Why would a major Norwegian arts institution choose to elevate these images when countless Palestinian humanitarians, thinkers, and community leaders embody a far more compelling vision of dignity, freedom, and a future beyond blood merchants who have sold “armed resistance” as a path to liberation? Instead of recycling sick, dehumanizing symbols that reinforce the stereotype of Palestinians as terrorists, imagine highlighting the humanity of Palestinians in Gaza and beyond; their love of life, their desire for peace, opportunity, and relief from decades of failed “resistance” narratives that Western radicals and diaspora Arab and Palestinian voices refuse to let go of.

Oslo is saturated with “pro‑Palestine” stickers, flyers, and signs. But if “solidarity” manifests as the glorification of terror and the reduction of Palestinians to violent caricatures, then this support does more harm than good. In that case, Norway’s sympathy is not solidarity at all; it is a disservice to the very people it claims to champion.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@thestustustudio @ncri_io Even if these people are just "useful idiots"
The country at war with us would clearly want to fund the anti-war movement.
We need to monitor this obvious vulnerability.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@Saul_Sadka 100% this.
It was a catch and kill story.
NY Times has lost all credibility.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@RachelMoiselle Ireland is morally confused.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOW 🚨 House Oversight Task Force hearing reveals that essentially the ENTIRE Bhutanese population in Ohio is on taxpayer funded Medicare or involved in fraudulent Medicare home health care companies

It also expands into multiple states

15,000 Bhutanese people were bussed in on Medicaid vans by Bhutanese Medicaid companies

“I would say the majority of Bhutanese people are either on Medicaid home health care or are providing Medicaid home health care services. They had recently 15,000 people. This nonprofit group, this advocacy group, which is actually founded by a home health care guy, they had 15,000 Bhutanese people come to this party in Ohio, and they'd bussed in all the participants on their Medicaid vans, because everybody there has their own Medicaid company”

“Bhutanese people are systematically using Medicaid, not only in Ohio, but also in Pennsylvania, and Kentucky, and New York, and in other states where they perceive that they will pay the family member, and they will pay for non-nursing services. And those are the two big vulnerabilities

— it's not just the Somalis, it's also Bhutanese, it's across multiple states. They're coordinating with each other. There's a network of foreigners running criminal fraud rings within our government, within our country, I should say defrauding our federal government”

I found out they’re using shell companies

Shell companies with empty offices and shared addresses with names linked to Somali, Bhutanese and other immigrant communities

You’re not going to believe this, Democrats have already responded. Democrats and community advocates call it stereotyping entire ethnic groups rather than targeting individual fraud

It’s not stereotyping, it’s pattern recognition and having more than 1 brain cell

Send them ALL back and block all their visas for life

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

@GAZAWOOD1 Found this video in 2023 shortly after 10/7
I realized that Israel cannot make peace by herself.

[UnbotheredModerate @CoffeeBuffalo]

Good point.

[David Bernstein @ProfDBernstein]

Platner being a grifter who takes a 100% disability check from the government while obviously not being 100% disabled railing against "billionaires" is the least surprising revelation of the year.
Yes, it's entirely plausible he's legally entitled to the check because of the screwed up disability rules. But if you are able to run a vigorous campaign while complaining about *other* people ripping off the system, maybe he shouldn't be taking the money.