Gustaere

Father of 5, adoption of 3, husband of 1. My life is defined by my faith and my values.

[Abdulhafeez sharaf @abdulhafeez86]

“Abdul is not a practicing physician

By the way, my name is Abdul, and I am also Muslim. The difference is that I am a practicing physician who treats patients.

After spending several days in Michigan, I became even more convinced that the policies of Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, are disastrous in every sense of the word.
Take his explicit support for gender transition for children. Whether he sincerely believes in it or is merely saying it for electoral reasons, either possibility is deeply troubling. If he means it, I consider that a terrible policy, particularly for children. If he does not believe in it but claims to support it to win votes, then he could be dishonest about any of his other policies as well. That was something I repeatedly encountered during my visit to Michigan. The Arabs, Muslims, and Middle Eastern Americans I spoke with kept telling me, “He only says that to win votes. He does not actually believe in those things.” To me, that is hypocrisy, and it is a serious problem.

The same applies to his positions on Iran. He speaks as though he stands with the so-called “resistance” camp. Again, I heard Arabs and Sunni Muslims explain that he only says these things because many of his voters are members of our beloved Shia community and he does not want to lose their support.

I heard similar explanations on most other issues. Take Medicare for All, for example a policy that I believe cannot realistically be implemented because its cost alone would reach $40 trillion. Everyone I spoke with told me that Abdul only promotes it to win votes from the left, even though he knows it cannot be implemented.

The same goes for socialism and his advocacy of democratic socialism. People told me that he knows it would not work in America and that it is a failed policy, but that he promotes it to win left-wing votes. Yet they still want to vote for him simply because he is Arab and Muslim, despite disagreeing with most of his policies and his platform.

As American from Syrian descent let me say that I have serious doubts about his position on Syria. I do not believe he would be an ally to Syria in the U.S. Senate. That is my personal assessment, based on his previous positions on Iran, his alignment with the so-called “resistance” camp, and his alliance with a left that has consistently opposed the new Syria.

That raises a question for me: If we vote solely on the basis of religion and ethnicity, despite opposing a candidate’s policies, are we not also making religion and ethnicity the focus of the political backlash? We have made those identities the primary and almost the only reason for supporting him. If we chose candidates based on their policies instead, the criticism would focus on those policies rather than religion, ethnicity, or skin color. Of course, that does not excuse such attacks, but I believe it helps explain them.

I still believe that the greatest domestic threat to America is the far left and the democratic socialism it promotes. Tying Arabs, Muslims, and Middle Eastern Americans to an alliance with that movement is, in my view, a deeply misguided and dangerous choice.
Abdul also presents himself as a physician in the United States, when in fact he is not licensed to practice medicine here and has not completed clinical training in American hospitals. Yes, he graduated from medical school, but he is not authorized to practice medicine or treat patients, and he has never treated a single patient in his life.

My view remains unchanged: This alliance between the socialist left in America and Arabs and Muslims does not reflect who we are or serve our interests. I believe it will do us considerable harm. It will benefit neither our community nor our beautiful country, the United States of America.

[Pete Marocco 🇺🇸 @Petermarocco]

@DataRepublican @realdonaldtrump ordering the shut down of USAID was a great victory for the American people. It was an honor to serve with @elonmusk and @doge. But as this recording shows, USAID's threat to freedom, and its color revolutions on our soil, are still very real. 🙏🇺🇸

[Gustaere @gustaere]

And that’s why Rogers’s wouldn’t debate under @rooprajfox2 because he’s a partisan hack. Roop sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest. (But he works really hard only seeing what he wants to see)
So then Roop places the empty chair on the debate stage to show us all that he stands for biased “journalism”

[Craig Mauger @CraigDMauger]

Quite a moment

Journalist Roop Raj told Mike Rogers he's looked closely and hasn't found a direct connection between Abdul El-Sayed and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Rogers responded, "Roop, you have not looked hard enough or you're just looking and you don't want to find it."

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

Democrats will shout and scream, call you a bigot, nazi, fascist, racist, misogynist, sexist threat to democracy, then lose their ever-loving minds and call you “divisive” when you come to the logical conclusion that maybe we’re no longer “fellow citizens” simply debating issues.

Understand something. The name-calling is not hyperbole, those names are what they think we actually are. The real tactic at this stage is them feigning outrage when you notice.

They need you to see this as the same old debates between left and right so you don't see this for what it has become. A clash of diametrically opposed worldviews that can't coexist with one another.

Don't believe me?

Ok…how do you share a constitutional republic built upon Christian morality, English common law traditions, property rights, and limited government with a political movement that not only doesn't want those things, but believes they are oppressive tools of the patriarchy that must be “decolonized” and replaced with a largely Marxist interpretation of economics and a hedonistic interpretation of morality?

When John Adams said our Constitution was written for a moral and religious people and is totally unsuited to the government of any other, that wasn't just flowery political talk. He wasn't making a campaign speech. He was making an observation about objective reality.

And by the way, that opinion is not just shared by those of us who admire Adams, it's shared by those who hate him.

The DSA agrees that our constitution is “totally unsuitable” for the country they want. Which is why they openly talk about fighting, dismantling, and replacing it.

In a recent poll, 59% of Democrats said they support the DSA. So this is not some insignificant “fringe” on the left. It's the emergent wing that Democratic leadership recognizes it is dependent upon to take control.

So understand that their outrage at you seeing this fight for what it is, is how they keep you from fighting it the way it needs to be fought.

What's sad is their tactic might just work.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Someone needs to listen to this man.

[Everett Stern @EverettStern1]

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,

My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.

The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.

I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.

I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.

Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.

Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.

Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.

A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.

This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.

There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.

Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.

I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.

This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.

Three things would change the math overnight.

Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.

End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.

And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.

Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.

I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.

Respectfully,

Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

[Gustaere @gustaere]

@ErmanniMedia thoughts? Have you guys covered this?

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

If you want to know why America is polarized, it’s the fault of the media.

Yesterday, the Free Beacon, a conservative outlet, caught Abdul Sayed in a lie when Abdul denied his family had a connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. The FB showed a tweet by his own sister saying their mother belonged to the MB.

The revelation that Abdul lied about his family ties to a radical Islamic terrorist group was ignored by NBC, ABC, CBS’s nightly news shows. The NYT and WP haven’t covered it.

This should be a screaming front page story. Instead, the MSM runs cover for Abdul.

The American people just want to know the truth about their politicians. Instead, the media are helping Abdul cover up the truth.

Abdul has a lot to hide. It’s a tragedy the MSM is part of the team helping him hide it.

[Gustaere @gustaere]

@NewEmergingKing Taught all 5 of mine to be good. Nice doesn’t have boundaries, good has boundaries. Being good isn’t always being nice and being nice isn’t always being good.
Notice we say “God is good” not God is nice.
Good allows for justice, mercy, grace… nice doesn’t.

[King Randall, I. @NewEmergingKing]

Some of y’all are raising kids to be so “well behaved” that they become easy to control.

Respectful does not have to mean silent.
Polite does not have to mean powerless.

Teach them manners, yes. But also teach them to speak up, ask questions, trust when something feels wrong, and leave situations that make them uncomfortable.

Do not discipline the backbone out of your child.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

There was a situation at my daughter’s school last week which left her in tears. I went in to the school the day after to let them know we were removing her with immediate effect. The head teacher tried to explain but I had no interest in her excuses or reasons.

The school had a play and an open evening for next year’s new pupils, and my daughter’s class were asked to take the potential new pupils and their parents for a tour of the school and classes.

My daughter is the most softly spoken, polite and friendly child you’d probably ever meet. She’s one of just 40 Jewish pupils at the school out of over a thousand children. My wife wanted her to go to a non Jewish school because she felt concerned about the security threats at Jewish schools, and I don’t have much say in the matter as I’m just the dad. Our youngest goes to a Jewish school and the security simply isn’t anywhere good enough. This would be both their last year at school in this country because we’d already made the decision to leave the country before their next school year.

My oldest wears a tiny discreet Star of David pendant. It’s so inoffensive to anybody but allows her to express her Jewish faith in a small way.

When it was her turn in line to greet the family she would show around, the family was a Muslim family. My daughter has no personal issue with anybody and is friendly with two Muslim girls in her class who aren’t bothered by her being Jewish. But this family clearly were. In front of everyone, the father refused to be shown around by “a Jew”. He apparently, according to several parents and a teacher, raised his voice at her, and demanded that another child show them around. Instead of the head teacher condemning his behavior and telling him to leave, she asked my daughter to step aside and asked another pupil to show them around. Nobody except other parents, non Jewish parents, came to my daughter to ask if she was even ok. She was in a flood of tears, frightened and confused.

My wife got a phone call from another parent and insisted she would go fetch our daughter because she already knew what I would do had I gone there myself. But this is what we live in now. This is the new normal.

For reasons of what will come next, I won’t name the school. But this is going to escalate, a lot.

[Dan Crenshaw @DanCrenshawTX]

I love a good intellectual takedown. This one is 🔥🔥🔥

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

What’s terrifying about this clip isn’t their ideals…these sweet gals’ hearts are certainly in the right place. What’s terrifying is they have the civic, political, and economic literacy of a 9 year old. When a charlatan like Abdul comes along with the Jr High class president schtick of “no more homework and the vending machines are all free!”, they fall for it.

I don’t know how you get to that age with ZERO understanding of supply chains, manufacturing, labor costs…but a lot of folks think that medicine and MRIs and hospitals just materialize out of thin air like unicorn farts. They’ve never built anything in their lives, so they have no concept of how things function…things are just…there. They think milk comes from the store. They think rich people don’t pay taxes, even though the top 1% fund 40% of government with their taxes already, and yet 40% of all Americans contribute ZERO federal income tax at all. These people don’t understand that you could tax the wealthy at 100% and it would only fund the government for 120 days. Then you’re screwed.

Too many Americans simply have zero understanding of how anything works, and even though they’re living in the easiest times in human history, they think things are “terrible out there”. These commie scammers roll through and promise them things that sound great, but aren’t possible in reality, and have devastating consequences if tried…but because they don’t know anything, they fall for it. Sadly, so many of our politicians and their advisors are such atrocious communicators, there’s like zero countervailing narrative to push back on the commie gobbledygook, so we are gonna have to learn the hard way. Guys…we just had a sample of socialism: Covid. We all got universal basic income, and it ended up tripling our costs and they’ll never go down. Ever. That one brief little experiment in command and control government will haunt us the rest of our lives. Bleak stuff, man.

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

This gentleman does such good work. We need about 100,000 more like him. I along with a lot of my followers kvetch about the ineffectiveness of government. That means when we see people like this, we should support him voluntarily:

https://t.co/5CxItJsoyZ

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Why is United taking a risk like this with the lives of passengers? No one wants an apology after the fact.

[Gustaere @gustaere]

A “journalist” who employs gaslighting so when they comment, he can claim superior intellect and they’re just jr high kids acting out.

[Roop Raj @rooprajfox2]

The eyes of the nation are on Michigan. Tonight is the debate between Mike Rogers and Abdul El Sayed in Grand Rapids. We will be there with all the highlights and coverage of the Spin Room starting at 8pm, streaming and online! What are the biggest issues that will affect your vote?

(For those who are truly serious about learning what others think, sorry you will likely have to sort through 80% of comments that will resemble a food fight in middle school…or an episode of Hunger Games. Sadly, the algorithm awaits the divide and the chaos of partisanship rather than an accurate reflection of reality. I won’t be here for “troll patrol” or “bot busting,” so to our regulars, enter at your own risk⚠️. To the rest, dive in and do you. The table is set.)

[Gustaere @gustaere]

@rooprajfox2

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

We believe that the West can awaken from its long slumber – and rekindle the fire that was first lit in ancient Greece millennia ago.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Dear Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines and,
UNITED BOARD OF DIRECTORS;
• ⁠Edward “Ted” Philip — Chairman
• ⁠Brett Hart — President
• ⁠Michael Leskinen — CFO
• ⁠Rosalind Brewer
• ⁠Michelle Freyre
• ⁠Matthew Friend
• ⁠Barney Harford
• ⁠Michele Hooper
• ⁠Walter Isaacson
• ⁠Edward Shapiro
• ⁠Laysha Ward
• ⁠James Whitehurst

That Mr. Kirby is still CEO of United Airlines after he ‘pledged’ to make your airlines less safe by hiring ‘diverse new pilots’ instead of the most qualified pilots says that you and the United Board of Directors are dangerously putting passengers at risk!

Even more concerning is Mr. Kirby’s inaction, and United Airlines Board members inaction, NOT firing PRO- HAMAS TERRORIST PILOT IBRAHIM R MOSSALLAM is despicable, racist, and disgusting and another DANGER to United passengers.

I will no longer fly United Airlines and I ask that MY FOLLOWERS NO LONGER FLY UNITED AIRLINES and that they RETWEET THIS FAR AND WIDE!

Sincerely,
Rob Schneider
Former Customer of United Airlines

[King Randall, I. @NewEmergingKing]

If the whole lobby heard your room number, your room is not private anymore.

One of the first things I’m teaching these girls about traveling is protecting information that does not need to be public.

Your room number should be given to you discreetly. If it gets announced where strangers can hear it, speak up and ask what your options are.

Not because we want girls scared of the world.

Because I want them aware enough to notice the little things that can keep them safer.

Privacy is part of safety.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Islam is the only religion that has a fully developed doctrine and laws that demand the subjugation, forced conversion and ultimately the killing of non-believers.

That makes it much more than just a religion. That makes it a political ideology.

One that is not compatible with the West.