Alex Mercer

It makes good sense, to revere the sun and stars, for we are their children.

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

@0xBOYD It's a joke

https://t.co/ZlcA799Nyb

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

@MatthewHallberg @specs @specsfordevs Yu-Gi-Oh needs this

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The folks who want flock cameras in your neighborhood, the folks who wanna read your emails without a warrant, the folks who say, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, why do you wanna hide it?” have withheld 3 million Epstein files and redacted the rest.

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

@ElliottMelodee @I__am_Legend___ I thought the same thing, but maby the lense is making it look steeper than it really is.

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

@GaryJSamaniego @I__am_Legend___ After dumping a bucket the operator had to pull in to avoid the on lookers. If they moved, that pro could've been moving even faster. Oh and red zone stuff

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

@Cannacollectors Purple people eater

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

From every individual state?

[Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj]

Why the fuck do states send money to Israel

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

Why was he escorted out?

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

James Fishback is PHYSICALLY removed from Miami Dade
County Commission meeting for saying they should invest taxpayer funds in American teachers and firefighters rather than send it to Israel.

ALL HE ASKED WAS WHY THE STATE IS SENDING $450m TO ISRAEL‼️

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

@biggestblogger_ Just disconnect printer from the Internet, the printer itself doesn't know what to look for.

[Libertarians against Trump @libertariansag]

🚨 HOLY SH*T. Rep. Thomas Massie is literally reading the names of Epstein’s co-conspirators LIVE on the House floor:

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 U.S. soldiers are DONE with Israel…

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

I built this with Grok to help my son code in creative on Minecraft — try it out: https://t.co/b5mvHnSkuW

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

I built this with Grok — try it out: https://t.co/pCoEgfc1c5

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

😭 there it is, we hit $40 trillion.

FWIW, I coded the debt badge to sync w/ https://t.co/VbtmGuRhPi which is about 48 hours behind on reporting, and to project to present time based on the annual average debt per second and the number of seconds stale the treasury data is.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

$4,000 per year per American.

That’s how much interest we are paying on the debt to banks & foreign countries every year.

A family of four owes $16,000 per year for nothing but interest on the debt!

I lost my re-election because I voted against the policies that caused this.

[Alex Mercer @e_ckss]

@Chosen_One215 @one_hardTruth About 30 for me

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

This should upset every American

You can buy a large can of Pringles, a box of Mac and cheese, a family size box of name brand cereal and a full pack of Chips Ahoy cookies all together for about the same price as one small bag of sweet potatoes or Brussels sprouts

This is why so many Americans choose junk. Good food is extensive and junk is much cheaper by comparison

And when you think about it, it really makes no sense. Because a few loose Brussels sprouts shouldn’t cost more than items with 40 ingredients that needs to be put in packaging

It’s almost like we’re supposed to choose the bad food so we have health issues and they can make more money off us getting sick….

Remember even Calley Means says he worked for Big Food and the pharmaceutical industry and he said they absolutely work together to keep us sick