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[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran DOESN'T have.

Namely, exact dates, exact places or exact titles or names you can check.

Bro, when you read the Quran’s stories there is literally zero chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year. It is incredibly vague.

You cannot get answers to questions like: Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it, which conveniently means you can’t check it.

Now, contrast that to the Bible, read the opening of Luke 3:

“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”

SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.

An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.

And people HAVE checked, for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…

UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.

Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.

Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”

Certainty. That’s the offer of the Bible.

The Quran floats above history where nothing can touch it.

The Bible planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig. I dug. It’s still standing.

Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.

[asadeer @laolancer]

@RepJayapal The United States is becoming increasingly disgusting precisely because of people like you.

[asadeer @laolancer]

@gVeZMtr2KJ11954 @VicentYip 抄袭犹太人的Torah。上帝让以色列从其他异端分别出来。古代近东文华有崇拜偶像献祭猪的仪式。

[asadeer @laolancer]

@contra2nd 🙏

[asadeer @laolancer]

@StrategicWin5 @KatiePavlich The Democratic Party has been around for all these years—haven’t they managed to clean things up, for fuck‘s sake?

[asadeer @laolancer]

@Truth_Vaultq 你是一个王八蛋

[CONSTITUTION X 🇺🇸 @ConstitustionX]

🚨 THE ECONOMIC BOOM THEY REFUSED TO TELL YOU ABOUT JUST EXPLODED INTO VIEW 🚨
While the entire country was screaming about races, polls, and midterm chaos… an absolute economic rocket was launching right under our noses. And almost NO ONE noticed.
Victor Davis Hanson just laid out the numbers that should have every American furious about the messaging failure:
🔥 165,000 NEW JOBS just dropped — they were projecting a pathetic 45,000 a month ago
🔥 Poverty rate crashed to an ALL-TIME LOW of 10.5%
🔥 Per capita family income hit a brand new RECORD of $87,000
🔥 GDP just revised UP to 3.4%… Atlanta Fed now says it could hit 5% by year-end
We are in the middle of a BOOM. And the only thing louder than the economy is the political fighting drowning it out.
Now compare that to 2022 when the red wave vanished:
📈 Stock market is a staggering 20,000 points HIGHER than when Biden “stopped the red wave”
📈 Family income is $14,000 higher than just four years ago
📉 Inflation was a brutal 9.1% record high in 2022… now nowhere near that
⛽ Gas on Election Day 2022 was $3.95–$4.05… today it’s $4.06 — basically identical
In 2022 the economy was a wreck, inflation was three times worse, GDP was weaker, people were furious… yet the political outcome was completely different.
So what changed?
The numbers got better. The messaging got worse. And the country was too busy fighting to notice the boom happening right in front of them.
This is the biggest missed opportunity heading into the midterms. The data was there the entire time.
Who was paying attention? 👀
(Share this before it gets buried.) 🔥📈💸

[asadeer @laolancer]

@Bluke520 @grok The Democratic Party has driven America’s traditional manufacturing out of the country, and it will likewise drive modern manufacturing out of its own states.

[asadeer @laolancer]

@SenWarren Go and take the rich people‘s money.

[asadeer @laolancer]

@GOP__Ls @grok Is this true?

[asadeer @laolancer]

@jimmieX07 It’s quite simple: lay off staff and cut production.

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

The Midterm is Not the Endterm

It is too soon to calibrate the direction of the post midterm Democratic and Republican Parties.

But if the first 72 hours are any indication—and despite the soon to be Speaker’s denials—the Left is already bragging about subpoenas, and it is intoxicated by the notion of investigations and impeachments.

Heady Democrats have entirely forgotten the politically suicidal fashion of the 2021-4 five civil and criminal courtroom circuses, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and the blue state deballoting efforts.

All that and more fueled the Trump recovery.

Wild talk of multi-trillion-dollar new agendas grows, like socializing the health care system, a renewed Green New Deal, student loan forgiveness, and illegal alien amnesties, along with new punitive income and estate regulations and taxes.

This socialist dream is reminiscent of the 2021 giddy splurging that gave the country a 9.1% inflation rate by midterm year 2022.

Along with the Afghanistan disaster (the Left’s correction for a Middle East ‘forever war”) the inflation would ensure Biden a 40% popularity.

The idea that the Left, which cannot do much real lawmaking without a veto-proof Congress, will try to reach deals with the White House, adopt a 1995 Clinton-like realist agenda, simply claim credit for the growing Trump economy, or moderate its rhetoric is highly unlikely.

Instead, we hear crazy talk of confiscations, new billionaire and millionaire punitive taxes, imprisonments, changing the Constitution—all in full suicidal 1972 McGovern style.

Republicans are blame-gaming each other, which can be constructive if over issues and reforms rather than social media ad hominem. But they need to message far better, about both the administration’s successes and the dangers of a socialist future.

There will be likely be no planned presidential succession, or gentlemanly agreement on a front runner. That’s likely good news. More likely as of now a triangular race between front-runners De Santis, Rubio, and Vance emerges—all of whom are far preferable to any ticket with a Newsom, Harris, AOC, Mamdani, or el-Sayed.

If the Republicans can stay reasonably united, they can ensure permanent presidential vetoes of crazy leftwing legislation, fight back on the Democratic committee inquisitions, and see the economy in the final two years become an asset in recovering their popularity.

Absent in all conversations is that there is increasing evidence that the economy is actually expanding and has the potential to boom in 2027, or at least the data indicate such potential.

The jobs report came out yesterday with a stunning 165,000 jobs created in October (accompanied by the usual journalists’ adverb “unexpectantly”), dropping unemployment to 4.1%.

Revised 3rd GDP stats now show a robust 3.4% growth—likely ensuring at least 3%+ growth for the year.

Third Quarter consumer spending soared 3.8%.

Private domestic investment surged with 19.4% growth.

Just reported last week: median family income in 2025 hit a new record ($87,460)—the highest in 60 years adjusted for inflation. And poverty dipped to its lowest rate (ever 10.2%).

In October manufacturing activity grew faster than at any time in the past five years.

Yes, prices are too high, and final 2026 inflation, given gas hikes, is scheduled to increase by one point (3.7%) from last year’s (2.7%). But it is still lower than the pan-European average (ca. 4+%)—and much lower than the Biden average over four years of 5.1%.

Gas prices are already falling. On November 6 prices fell to a $4.06 average—as global oil transit is mostly back to prewar levels and refineries scramble to handle the increased deliveries.

U.S. companies are dominating all the top 10 rankings in market capitalization/usage in key area such as software, AI, digital media, space, satellite launches, and bio/genetic engineering.

Note that today gas prices are not that much higher than 4 years ago at the 2022 midterm time ($4.06 vs. ca. $3.80), and haven’t once spiked to $5 a gallon as they did in 2022, just four months before the Biden midterms.

Yet oddly, the red wave sputtered in 2022 when the U.S. was in far worse economic shape than this week when the blue wave became a tsunami.

Messaging, media, and communication count, so note:

Four years ago GDP growth was lower than today—even though the pandemic was about over and there was a dramatic return to work and spending.

The inflation rate was almost three times higher in 2022 than now.

Median family income was $14,000 lower than now. The poverty rate was higher in 2022.

The Dow was 20,000 points lower. Foreign investment will likely end the year 30-40% higher than in 2022.

Real wage growth (nominal wages minus inflation) while not great in 2026 is likely to end the year far better than in 2022 (when real wage growth fell 2-3%).

So why would “affordability” have been decisive in the 2026 midterms when it was not in 2022?

The 21% aggregate inflation rate Trump inherited force-multiplied the average 3.15% Trump inflation rate of 2025-6— yet in a way the aggregate first-term Trump inflation rate (7.7% just a third of the Biden total) did not exaggerate all that much the 9.1% inflation rate in 2022.

Messaging, however, matters. The administration did not explain adequately that a 21% rise in prices cannot be lowered without radical deflation or recession, but only ameliorated by medium family income growth and lowering the inflation rate from the Biden 2021-5 averages, both of which occurred in 2025-6, but were forgotten.

Media coverage of the Biden 2022 weak economy were muted, while Trump’s 2-year inflation rate was exaggerated during 2026.

The Iran war became the culprit as a war of choice that made the inherited Biden 21% high prices and the inability to lower were them solely Trump’s fault. Again, there was inadequate explanation of either the economic reality or why the gamble to denuclearize Iran was defensible–with the caveat that stopping the bombing at day 38 and talking with theocrats for seven months was an unfortunate mistake.

The domestic and foreign policy activism of the lame-duck Clinton (1998-2000} and Obama (2014-2016) presidencies increased after their loss of Congress. Indeed, their popularity climbed from a once nadir of below forty to sixty percent approval or above.

There is no reason why the Trump administration cannot have a successful last two years. The economy is growing.

The crime rate is at historic lows.

The border is closed shut. The radical pro-Western political transformation of South and Central America has remade the entire Western Hemisphere.

European NATO is rearming.

Oil and gas production is at highest levels of any nation in history.

The bloated federal work force has been trimmed by over 270,000 jobs.

There is no longer a 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment. The forced reforms in higher education were long overdue.

The verdict on Iran is still out.

If it is denuclearized, the crippling sanctions continued, the Strait kept open, the provincial opposition armed—and our military gone home— the regime will face an increasingly restive population

2026 was an unequivocal defeat, but 2028 need not be.

If the administration and Congress stay disciplined and united, and can message better, while the Left goes utterly berserk, drunk on their midterm successes, socialism/Islamism, and Trump Derangement Syndrome 2.0, the tide will soon radically turn— as the economy already has.

[客家之光 @lao_jiang50163]

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[asadeer @laolancer]

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[楼台窗口 @i441441]

有网友问中国为什么始终不愿打仗？

[asadeer @laolancer]

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[asadeer @laolancer]

@mubeitech 万斯只会演讲，对处理实际问题没有任何手段和措施。川普的负资产。

[asadeer @laolancer]

@LittleLee_x 川普是罕见的聪明的人，两届政府把他造就成为杰出的政治家。

[asadeer @laolancer]

@MianMaoKu 民主党的核心是大政府

[asadeer @laolancer]

@Fugener1917 @mubeitech 没法再继续打。伊朗神权不投降。再打就开始大规模伤及平民。