Keith

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

Now you know why Epstein didn't invite him to the island.

[MilGrauNews @MilGrauNews]

Eu e os rapazes na churrascaria

[☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎ @LuckyMcGee]

My favorite part of King Charles appearing before Congress was the part where all the liberals who refused to stand or applaud for Angel Moms or a kid with cancer, and who constantly scream “NO KINGS!” give a 3 minute standing ovation for a literal king. 🙃

What a bunch of disingenuous hypocrites.

[Momo🥵🇨🇦 @Momoreoluwaa]

when you do something right and your boss actually sees it

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

Well... he's not wrong... 😅

[U.S. Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept]

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Justice Department announces indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center ("SPLC"). Our indictment alleges SPLC secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION in funds to members of white supremacist and extremist groups.

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

LOL - funny because it's true.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

LOL! California Dem Katie Porter, touted as the party’s next big hope after Swalwell’s exit, completely flops in a simple interview.

She dodges basic questions, gets flustered, gestures wildly, and even facepalms, all while the interviewer struggles to keep a straight face.

This is who they’re running next?

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

If you want to truly understand what it means to have an IQ in the range of 75-80, which is borderline retarded, listen to Kamala Harris explain how to solve inflation.

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

BREAKING - One of the men who attacked conservative journalist @Savsays outside the Whipple ICE facility in Minneapolis has been identified as Prior Lake, Minnesota man Chris Ostroushko.

Let’s find out if his boss knows that he hits women.

[Bobbi @kittenaround_51]

How to ride with your kids now that they have their own cars. 🤣🤣🤣

[Kent Murphy @KentMurphy]

This throw was absolutely ABSURD 🤯

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

The dark side of prescription drugs.

[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.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

Outstanding find by Maze - GREAT throwback to Dianne Feinstein in 1993:

"Should people be able to come to this country, get on Medicaid, give birth to a baby, and then go back to their home country? The answer is no."

REPOST this absolutely EVERYWHERE.

#thinblueline #lawenforcement

[Keith @keithw247]

If quantum computing is going to be able to crack Bitcoin cryptography, why isn't anyone worried about it cracking their online banking password?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

During today’s No Kings Day Protests we look at the REAL Kings of America

Chuck Schumer, 45 years in Congress
Nancy Pelosi, 40 years in Congress
Elizabeth Warren, 15 years in Congress
Bernie Sanders, 34 years in Congress
Dick Durbin, 43 years in Congress

Donald Trump only 5 years 2 months in office

[Hayes Fawcett @Hayesfawcett3]

NEWS: Class of 2026 OT Neff Giwa has Committed to South Carolina, source told @Rivals

The 6’8 300 OT from Ireland chose the Gamecocks over Miami, Texas, North Carolina, and Tennessee

He’s a rugby-player-turned OT with 37-inch arms and runs a 4.88 40

https://t.co/47LvHMIrdJ

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

The mascot never imagined that approaching this security guard would make history 😂

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

Wait a minute... the liberal media told us the Taliban don't respect Trump

Katie Pavlich ~ American Dennis Coyle has been taken hostage by the Taliban, for almost a year

Trump ~ Gimme the name and I'll take care of that...👇 boy were they wrong