dougp357

IT Manager & Patriot, usually busy doing something...

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

Here’s the challenge – can you find a single instance where Democrats take the side of normal, law-abiding Americans over criminals, illegal aliens, perverts, fraudsters, government hacks, Muslim jihadi psychopaths, commies, or other subhuman losers?

Just name one.

[Habitual Linecrosser @HLC_actual]

Cool now do one of how many Americans pushed your neighbor back until mustache man washed out his mouth with muzzle flash.

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Quit calling them Progressives they are Communists.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

America routinely taking days/weeks to count ballots now is f’n hilarious. They might as well announce results in Hamburglar costumes

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

One of the big reasons for the current lack of patriotism and pride in our nation’s history is that about 40 years ago our most prominent storytellers in Hollywood just basically stopped telling stories about American history altogether, unless it has something to do with WW2, civil rights, or slavery. I mean they just released a movie about the meteorologist who did the weather report for D-Day. They’ll give WW2 weathermen their own movies before they tell a story from any other era of American history.

The Right has attempted to counteract this a little bit, but “conservative” attempts at American history films and TV shows are invariably hokey and kid friendly, the kind of thing you can watch with your grandmother and your 5 year old, and you’ll all be equally informed and bored by the experience.

We need R-rated adult-oriented American history stories. Daniel Boone should have his own series. It would be gritty and violent and not for children, but it would also be phenomenally entertaining and put an American legend back on the cultural map, so to speak. The fact that Daniel Boone hasn’t been depicted on screen at all since like the 60s is a travesty. Throw a dart at that guy’s Wikipedia page and you’ll land on something that could be its own feature length trilogy.

That’s just one example. How is there not a great R-rated movie or series about Antietam? Or Kit Carson? Or the Panama Canal? How does Theodore Roosevelt not have like 10 movies about different periods of his life?

You could go much farther back to pre-American history. A movie about Cortes’s conquest of Tenochtitlan would be tremendous and horrifying and fascinating, and it would introduce into the public consciousness one of the world’s most incredible stories that most Americans know next to nothing about. And on and on.

The possibilities are literally endless. All of these movies, if they’re executed to even a B+ level, could make hundreds of millions of dollars and transform the culture in a way that a million podcast monologues never could. If the Right actually wants to reclaim the culture, this is the place to start.

[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

Since I’m going to be hearing this for the next 6 months as a Texas voter, let me answer the question:

“You would vote for an adulterer over James Talarico? That’s not very Christian.”

Here’s the truth: I would rather vote for almost anyone else who is going to at least advocate for conservative *policies* over a literal heretic who wears my faith like a skin suit, advocates for policies that harm children, endorses immorality and generally harm society.

Ken Paxton has personal baggage. I don’t deny that. But Talarico has plenty too — and he openly mocks God’s law and treats Jesus as a political mascot all while pushing a radical far-left agenda that would be a disaster for my state.

You see, I’m an adult. I do not expect those who are seeking political office to be my moral superiors or even trustworthy. They are tools to be used to do the least amount of damage via policy.

I wish more pastors and men who live godly lives were running. I really do. But the options we get are what they are.

Paxton supports secure borders, law enforcement, lower taxes, unleashing American energy, the Second Amendment, just to name a few.

Talarico supports unlimited abortion, trans-ing children, higher taxes, government-run “healthcare,” and is incredibly comfortable blaspheming the word of God.

I’m not voting for a priest. I’m voting for an imperfect person to represent my interests. That’s how it works.

You’re not going to guilt trip Texans into supporting a looney tunes candidate like Talarico. Paxton will win by 5+.

It’s about policy, not personality.

[Sólionath @Anarseldain]

America was 85% White in 1976, by the way. Nobody cares about the semiquincentennial because 30% of the country got here in the last few decades and hate the country that my ancestors built. And when we strip away all the census lies, it’s probably closer to 40%.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "American cattle ranching is destroying the Great Plains."

Rancher: "How many bison were here in 1800?"

Activist: "A lot."

Rancher: "Sixty million. Same biomass as every cow in America today. Standing on the same grass."

Activist: "That was different."

Rancher: "How?"

Activist: "It was natural."

Rancher: "It was ruminants. Eating grass. Trampling it. Dunging it. The grassland built six feet of topsoil underneath them."

Activist: "Then we shouldn't have killed them."

Rancher: "Correct. We killed them, ploughed the prairie, and got the Dust Bowl in thirty years. Largest ecological collapse in American history."

Activist: "..."

Rancher: "The fix wasn't fewer animals. The fix was putting them back. The grass evolved to be eaten."

Activist: "So reintroduce bison."

Rancher: "Or use the 1,200-pound ruminant that's already here, in the same numbers, doing the same job, on the same grass."

Activist: "It's not the same."

Rancher: "It's the same animal with a different accent."

Activist: "It still feels wrong."

Rancher: "The thing that felt wrong was killing the bison. The cattle are how we're paying it back. Take them off and you finish the job we started in 1870."

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

The UFO files are wild.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

On Wednesday @RepJeffries called for “Maximum Warfare Everywhere All The Time,” with a picture of Trump. Again, this attempted assassin didn’t go rogue. Democrats created him with their rhetoric. He believes he’s a hero. They told him to kill Trump & he tried to do it.

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

Lmfao that dude has begged for my money harder than every gas station crackhead in the country combined

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

Communists are demonic and violent. Democrats are communists. No rhetoric will change or be “toned down.” That has never happened one time in the history of communism.

Toning them down is utterly destroying their institutions. All else is cope.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Trump needs to quit beefing with podcasters and go bare knuckle on the Senate. Etcher put the Senate into FULL RECESS, so Trump can make recess appointments, or keep the Senate in town until All NOMINATIONS are voted on and DHS FULLY FUNDED!

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Our govt national debt, compared to the size of the US economy, is racing into insane territory.

DOGE was the last chance to change the trajectory.

We will see this system collapse within our lifetime. The interest payments on the debt are swallowing the bulk of the budget.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Food for thought.

Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride

For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface.

The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities.

Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed.

In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines.

In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive.

A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent.

By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right.

In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

Roblox programmer hit with a further 197 new felony charges relating to child abuse material.

Get your kids off Roblox right now!

Any parent that allows their child to play that game is retarded.

[Bex @BexStreams]

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[Vince Coglianese @VinceCoglianese]

It's wild how sky-high our expectations are for Trump, yet rock-bottom for everyone else in D.C.

In just one year, he:

Fully secured the border
Removed nearly 3 million illegals
Dropped homicide rates to record lows
Dropped fentanyl flows by over 50%
Shrunk the federal workforce by 10%
Signed historic tax cuts

Any one of those is a standalone case for the Trump agenda to utterly dominate the midterms. Yet some people still mope! Bizarre.

Meanwhile, it would be considered some kind of epic achievement if Democrats simply funded ICE, or Republicans passed a voter integrity bill. If Congress does the bare minimum, it's considered a miracle.

There are always going to be battles to fight and problems to fix, but if you don't have any appreciation for where we came from, you'll never know where we should be going.

Let's make the 250th anniversary of our great country the year we get some perspective back. 🇺🇸

[dougp357 @dougp357]

@LibTearCreator1 Drop them out of helicopters. Just like communists.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

I don’t know why people say that John Thune has to try to please everybody as the majority leader.

Chuck Schumer sure as shit didn’t try to please everybody as the majority leader.

The compromises only go one way.