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Elon Musk exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”

Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.

We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.

Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.

That is not a funding problem.

That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

That sentence should keep you up tonight.

We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.

It is the opposite.

Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

They did not run out of stone.

They were not conquered.

They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.

That is the real threat to everything we have built.

Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.

A quiet forgetting.

Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.

The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.

And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.

Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.

One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.

You do not lose the future in a war.

You lose it in your sleep.

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Tehran is betting on Democrats.

Not because the mullahs admire their speeches about “diplomacy.” They admire the results.

Iran’s rulers know exactly how this game works. Survive Trump. Absorb the strikes. Make enough noise about humanitarian concerns to activate the usual media panic. Then wait for Washington’s professional appeasers to return and begin offering pallets of cash, sanctions relief, waivers, side deals, and another historically important piece of paper Iran can violate before the ink dries.

The regime does not need to defeat America. It just needs to outlast one election cycle.

That is the wager.

The IRGC watches our politics more carefully than half the people voting in them. It knows Republicans may demand consequences, while Democrats will eventually arrive carrying translators, concessions, and a strongly worded promise that this time the mullahs are definitely serious.

Apparently, decades of terrorism, hostage-taking, proxy wars, shipping attacks, nuclear deception, and chants of “Death to America” were all just cries for better diplomatic outreach.

Perhaps another seminar will fix it.

Iran stalls because stalling works. It negotiates because negotiation buys time. It asks for pauses because pauses let it rebuild. And it hopes American voters will eventually replace resolve with another administration desperate to announce “peace” before Tehran resumes the same behavior.

That is why half-measures are dangerous.

Every unfinished strike becomes another campaign promise to the mullahs: hold on long enough, and the Democrats will come back to save you from the consequences.
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@JD_Vance_Q1 The CIA needs to get its ass in gear. We should’ve been arming and training Iranian citizens before we started bombing. Start by taking outlying IRGC posts and defend that ground with superior air power. Kill any IRGC assets that move.

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The Grey Lady has once again dragged out the martyr’s cross, this time nailing herself to it with grand jury subpoenas like some kind of deranged performance artist. Cue the fake tears and the self-righteous press releases.

The New York Times published sensitive details about the President’s new Air Force One after being warned it raised serious national security risks. Now the government wants to know who handed them that information, and suddenly the paper is acting like it’s being marched to the gallows.

Their reporters aren’t being charged with anything. They weren’t raided. Their building wasn’t stormed. They got subpoenaed as witnesses. That’s it. But to the Times, that’s apparently the same thing as the end of the free press.

This is pure institutional narcissism on display. They don’t just want legal protection ... they want moral immunity. They want the public to treat every one of their reporters like some untouchable priest who gets to decide which laws apply to them. Prestige does not equal privilege. Being the New York Times does not come with a secret constitutional exemption from answering questions about national security leaks.

The real reason they’re screaming is simple: they don’t want to answer the question. Who leaked classified details that could help someone take down the President’s aircraft? That’s the ugly part they’re desperate to avoid. So instead they wrap themselves in the flag, clutch their pearls, and pretend a subpoena is some historic act of repression.

It’s not. It’s a witness summons. And no matter how dramatically they perform victimhood, refusing to identify a suspected national security leaker doesn’t make them heroes. It makes them arrogant, and it makes them look guilty as hell.
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Patient: "What are the side effects of the statin?"

Doctor: "Some people get muscle aches. Usually mild."

Patient: "And if I get them?"

Doctor: "We'd add naproxen for the pain."

Patient: "Does naproxen have side effects?"

Doctor: "It can irritate the stomach. Reflux, sometimes an ulcer. So we'd add omeprazole to protect it."

Patient: "And omeprazole?"

Doctor: "Long term it lowers your magnesium. Your B12 as well. We'd top those up."

Patient: "With more tablets."

Doctor: "Magnesium, and B12 if the bloods come back low."

Patient: "And the magnesium does what?"

Doctor: "Loosens the bowels. Loperamide settles that."

Patient: "That's six tablets. I walked in with no symptoms."

Doctor: "Could be seven. The statin can raise your blood sugar. We'd watch it, maybe start metformin."

Patient: "And metformin?"

Doctor: "Upsets the stomach. Lowers your B12."

Patient: "We already did B12."

Doctor: "Round we go."

Patient: "Is a single one of these treating something I actually feel?"

Doctor: "No. But your numbers will look excellent."

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At the end of a particularly thrilling and rollicking meeting in the Oval Office, Lindsey Graham turned to the room and said: “I’ve never had this much fun in my life.”

I cannot describe to you how much joy President Trump’s leadership and friendship brought to Lindsey. Meetings with Graham at the White House were filled with camaraderie, kinship and uproarious laughter.

As heartbreaking as his sudden passing is, I hope it will bring some measure of comfort to those who cherished him to know just how much he was living his dream every day. Very rarely in life do you get to be exactly where you want to be, when you want to be there, with who you want to be with, doing precisely what you want to do — that was every moment for Lindsey.

When President Trump won in Nov 2024, Lindsey was exultant. Elated. And determined. He couldn’t wait to spearhead work, as the Budget Chairman, on the reconciliation bill that would cement President Trump’s most important campaign promises. I’ll never forget the senate lunch, when a couple Senators were a tad off the program, and Lindsey — in his inimitable way — made sure everyone was onside by the time we left. It was a glorious thing to witness. He knew how to move a room.

Lindsey was a senator’s senator. The job was everything to him. Truly did he believe in the splendor of the office and the noble lineage behind it, of which he was the worthy heir.

He was a senator in the mold of those who fashioned the institution, someone who still had the ability, in a heated exchange, to use rhetorical power to change the course of events.

Which is why we will never forget his legendary Kavanaugh moment. We rarely think that we are out of time with our friends, so while there is a lot more I wish I could have said to Lindsey, I am glad that more than once I told him what that moment meant to the whole nation and why he was the only Senator who could have done it with such utter perfection.

Most importantly, I had the chance to tell him on many occasions what his friendship meant to me and to us all. There was never once a time he didn’t answer a phone call and lend whatever assistance was required. It was never a question with Lindsey. He believed deeply in the code of friendship and loyalty.

The fact that Lindsey started out as a political opponent only to become one the President’s most steadfast and faithful supporters underscores that Lindsey believed emphatically in the voice of the people.

There is a lot more I would like to say. His passing, at a time when he had never been more dynamic, is as unexpected as it is shocking. In many respects, Lindsey was the last of a breed of American Senator whose like we may not yet see again for a long time.

He lived every minute in the arena, a political gladiator to the very last.

More than anything now, our thoughts are with his Sister, nieces and loved ones.

We pray that God will ease their sorrow and heal their pain.

Lindsey can never be replaced and will never be forgotten.

Godspeed, my friend.

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