Fitz McKinney

Retired USMC 2/8. Constitutional originalist. Egalitarian. Memes come from those who can't string together enough words to create a coherent sentence.

[Fitz McKinney @FitzMcKinney]

Racists flocked to vote for Trump in 2024 only because they didn't want a black woman running the country. Full stop.

[Fitz McKinney @FitzMcKinney]

Republican Senator John Thune and Senate Democrats blocked the bill.

Maybe lead with that next time.

[The Hill @thehill]

Senate Democrats block $1.15 trillion defense authorization bill

https://t.co/34ZnwHRry1

[Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng]

The Israeli military demolishes the home of Palestinian Osama Mesaf in the village of Deirat, east of Masafer Yatta, leaving the family devastated.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Adorable. The Department of War explaining that access to American weapons is "a privilege, not a right" is rather like a landlord lecturing tenants about loyalty while the roof is on fire and the rent has tripled.

Let's review the privilege. Iran, a sanctioned economy running on drones and spite, just spent weeks exposing the flagship American arsenal as exquisite, eye-wateringly expensive, and built for a war that ended thirty years ago. Meanwhile the F-35, your crown jewel, requires a maintenance entourage of roughly a hundred people per aircraft, a spare parts pipeline with a mood disorder, and a software licence that can be switched off from Washington whenever the president wakes up cross. Ukraine keeps ageing jets flying from motorway strips with a fraction of that. Turns out the privilege was the overhead all along.

And the reliability argument. You cannot threaten to abandon NATO on Monday, tariff your allies on Tuesday, and then present a "strong demand signal" on Wednesday as if nobody kept notes. Europe is not buying less American kit because we're sulking. We're buying less because a weapons system with a political kill switch attached to a four-year mood swing is a subscription service.

You say no one can replicate the American defence industrial base. Quite right. Nobody wants to. Why would anyone copy a factory optimised for the last war? Ukraine has shown Europe what the future actually looks like: cheap, fast, and built next door. Short supply lines, fail fast, and weapons that adapt in weeks rather than decades. While you spend twenty years and two trillion dollars perfecting one aircraft, a workshop outside Kyiv redesigns a drone on Tuesday because the jamming changed on Monday.

The “middle powers strategy” isn’t a distraction, and it isn’t a strategy either. It’s just what happens when the shopkeeper starts insulting the customers, doubling the prices, and musing openly about annexing one of them. Yes, we noticed the Greenland thing. Allies tend to remember when you threaten to take their territory. It’s an odd sales technique, coveting the customer’s house while lecturing him about loyalty.

So do carry on explaining that our engagement with you is a privilege. We’ll be over here, building the cheap fast stuff that actually wins wars, and checking the till twice.

[Phil Gordon @PhilGordonDC]

Extraordinary to treat allies like vassals, threaten their territorial integrity, impose unilateral tariffs, question longstanding security commitments, divert contracted arms deliveries, and then complain when allies seek more autonomy or alternative partners. Of course allies still need the US but it's a fantasy to think they aren't already making other plans.

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

The imbalance between the rich and the poor has reached a breaking point.

The first trillionaire has been minted.

Yet 20 states still have a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Something is fundamentally broken here.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

RON PAUL: Trump the Socialist

“Trump has been pursuing a policy perhaps more dangerous to liberty and prosperity as anything proposed by Zohran Mamdani or Bernie Sanders: using government funds to purchase partial ownership of private companies.”
https://t.co/TALJ5bocnK

[Fitz McKinney @FitzMcKinney]

Trump Jr. and brother Eric have a vested interest in Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza.

If Netanyahu pounds Gaza flat, it will save the boys millions in demolition costs.

In Davos they revealed their plans for the "Sunshine" Riviera, with "New Gaza" as the centerpiece.

[Fitz McKinney @FitzMcKinney]

He literally has no idea how the MoU even works.

The document, approved by two real estate developers, that he signed in Versailles, clearly lays out the timeline for negotiations.

It also states that any US aggression will be met with a response.

[Fitz McKinney @FitzMcKinney]

@CoryBooker Cory, you forgot to mention that these two have a have a vested interest in the genocide in Gaza. If Netanyahu pounds the Gaza Strip flat, it's going to save them demolition costs. You remember the Davos thing, you know where they want to pour billions into a "New Gaza" Riviera?

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

A North Carolina GOP operative has resigned from a state elections oversight role after the State Auditor’s office was caught aggressively attempting to influence how counties picked their early voting locations. https://t.co/W2wdY8E6LC

[Maria Avdeeva @maria_avdv]

If Odesa isn’t in the headlines, it doesn’t mean it’s safe. It’s under nonstop Russian attack. Today alone Russia attacked three civilian cargo ships in the Black Sea, killing crew members. Terrorizing civilians has always been the tactic.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Hungarian Defense Minister: “We are closing the door in the Russians’ faces”

Hungary’s new Defense Minister Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi said that Budapest intends to restore the trust of its allies and distance itself from Russia.

According to him, Hungary’s interests align with those of its NATO partners, and the previous government’s policy, including delaying support for Finland’s accession to the Alliance, was a mistake.

“We are closing the door in the Russians’ faces,” the minister said, adding that Russian intelligence services had tried to enter Hungary “through the back door.”

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russia has reportedly deployed its Tu-214PU "Doomsday aircraft" airborne command aircraft to Tehran.

A Russian Tu-214PU aircraft landed in Tehran on Monday morning. According to flight-tracking data reported by the Times of India, the plane is operated by the "Russia" Special Flight Detachment and is one of the country's most heavily protected airborne command post aircraft.

No official comments were given.

📹: NewsX World

[🇺🇦 Unmanned Systems Forces @usf_army]

💥 116 Vessels in 9 Days: USF Operators Struck 11 More Enemy Vessels Overnight

Here are more details on the results of the operation:

⚓ 5 tankers in the Sea of Azov were struck by operators of the @1usc_army , @Raid_413 and the @k_2army

⚓ 5 cargo ships in the Sea of Azov were struck by operators of the @1usc_army , @Raid_413 and the @k_2army

⚓ 1 tugboat in the Sea of Azov was struck by operators of the @Raid_413

Despite international sanctions, russia continues to export oil through its shadow fleet, using the revenues to finance its war against Ukraine.

The goal of the operation is to systematically disrupt the enemy’s logistics chain. Disabling tankers, cargo ships, and auxiliary vessels complicates the export of oil and petroleum products, limits maritime transport capabilities, and reduces the enemy’s ability to supply fuel to its forces and occupation grouping in temporarily occupied Crimea. In this way, operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces weaken one of the key elements of russia’s military logistics and sources of funding for its aggression.

USF: One step ahead!

[Fitz McKinney @FitzMcKinney]

.@NEWSMAX's Rob Finnerty is saying the quiet part out loud regarding the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA two years ago.

Calling the FBI investigation a cover-up he states, "all we have after two years are loose ends...".

[Slava 🇺🇦 @Heroiam_Slava]

This night 11 Russian tankers got hit by Fire Point drones

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Rare footage of the Ukrainian Osa anti-aircraft missile system in action.

[Defence Intelligence of Ukraine @DI_Ukraine]

🤝 Fighters of the DIU "Bratstvo" Battalion persuaded a russian occupier to surrender, demonstrating that international humanitarian law and Christian values are stronger than the kremlin's war machine.

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

The EU is paying for Putin’s war. New analysis shows that the EU paid Russia €6 billion so far this year for Russian gas. This is shocking and indefensible. You can’t be giving Putin money at the same time as you’re trying to economically isolate him. https://t.co/qGCbHiVFUD

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Ukrainian warriors marched down the Champs-Élysées and our pilots flew Mirage jets in joint crews at France's Bastille Day parade. 🇺🇦🤝🇫🇷