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[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

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[CornelioDelRancho @Corneliodelp]

Otra vez sociólogos haciendo estudios costosísimos para averiguar lo mismo que dijo un tuitero cagando hace 8 años:

[Alerta News 24 @AlertaNews24]

🇨🇴 | El presidente electo de Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, afirma que cerrará las embajadas en Argelia, Azerbaiyán, Barbados, Cuba, Chequia, Etiopía, Ghana, Haití, Hungría, Malasia, Nicaragua, Rumanía, Senegal y Sudáfrica.

Asimismo, cancelará los planes para abrir una embajada en Palestina y fusionará las misiones diplomáticas de Colombia en Francia (UNESCO) e Italia (FAO).

Colombia mantendrá relaciones diplomáticas con todos los países, excepto con Cuba y Nicaragua.

[Temmy | DeFi Analyst🦇🔊 @Only1temmy]

how my brain feels after reading this:

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The gun is the most misunderstood object in Western civilization. Not a weapon. A technology. The technology that made the idea of equality physically real.

1. The longbow democratized warfare – a peasant could kill a knight with a stick and a string, and Agincourt proved it. The gun completed the process. The armored warrior class whose claim to social dominance rested on physical superiority became obsolete. The aristocratic monopoly on violence ended not with a philosophy but with a mechanism. The gun is the physical enforcement of the idea that all men are created equal. Which is why the American founders put it in the second amendment – not as an afterthought, but as the guarantee of everything else.

2. The Roman citizen had the right to bear arms. The Greek citizen had it. The English yeoman had it. The Swiss canton built its entire civilization on it. The disarming of the population has always been, in every civilization, in every century, the first act of the government that intends to stop being answerable to that population. Show me a disarmed population and I will show you a population that lost something else shortly after.

3. The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is not about sport. It is about the relationship between the armed citizen and the state – the explicit constitutional acknowledgment that the citizen’s right to defend himself, his family, and his civilization against any threat, including the government itself, is not granted by the state and cannot be revoked by it. Power flows upward from the armed citizen, not downward from the armed state.

4. The gun defends the family. The woman alone with her children. The farmer on the edge of civilization. The shopkeeper in the neighborhood the police no longer patrol. The gun is the equalizer – the technology that makes the physical difference between a large man and a small woman irrelevant. Every argument for disarmament is, at its core, an argument that the state will protect you better than you can protect yourself. The evidence for this proposition is not encouraging.

5. In Europe, the disarmament is now nearly complete – and it happened precisely as the state’s ability and willingness to protect its citizens began to decline. The timing is not coincidental. A population that cannot defend itself must trust the state to defend it – which is a population that cannot effectively question whether the state is doing so. The dependency is the design.

6. The gun is a civilizational technology in the deepest sense: it requires responsibility, judgment, and the willingness to accept the consequences of your decisions. You cannot outsource it. You cannot have a committee fire it. It is the most anti-bureaucratic object ever invented – a direct, personal, consequential instrument that puts the full weight of the decision on the individual holding it. Which is precisely why the administrative state finds it intolerable. Not because it is dangerous. Because it is sovereign.

7. The family that can defend itself does not depend on the state for its most fundamental security. The civilization that can defend itself has not yet outsourced its survival to an institution that will negotiate the terms of that survival on its own behalf. The gun determines who controls violence – and therefore who controls everything that violence can threaten. Which is everything. The Sobieski who rode down the hill had a sword and sixty thousand horsemen. The equivalent today is the armed citizen who understands what he is defending and why. Every civilization that forgot this discovered it the hard way. The ones that remembered it are still here.

[Fun At All X @Ishita_Sharma42]

Hilarious🤣 🙌

[Ryan Saavedra @RyanSaavedra]

Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) delivers an incredibly powerful speech about Iran.

Watch every second of this.

"Yesterday we saw the president of the United States and many others at Dover Air Force Base presiding over a ceremony that is very sacred to those of us who served, and that is a dignified return of remains from the war zone.

That process happens beginning in the war zone through Dover to the hometown of our fallen heroes. I participated in many of those ceremonies myself to include carrying friends of mine off the plane.

One of those is on this bracelet. He was cut in half by an Iranian EFP.

This regime that we are fighting does not care about our partisan politics. They don't care who you voted for, who you pray to, or where you live. They want to kill all of us. And they don't just say it, they actually do it, and they've been doing it for forty-seven years.

This is a war of choice. The Democrats are correct. It's a war of choice that was begun by a radical lunatic band of terrorists that took over a beautiful nation 47 years ago, took it over with brutality, force, and savagery. And the second they took it over, they didn't free their people, they didn't unleash the largest oil reserves in the world to build schools and bridges.

They took it over to murder their own people and to spread their disgusting ideology across the world, and that is exactly what they have been doing. They don't just say it and talk about it. You don't have to believe what they say. You can simply watch what they've done.

They have attacked families, women, children, innocent people. They don't just attack them and kill them, they rape them. They skin them alive on camera. They celebrate it. They honor those people who do disgusting things that we would put in jail for the rest of their lives in this country, and they do it for fun, and they pay them money to do it, and they're heroes to that nation.

They've done it to friends of mine. They've done it to families who've been in this chamber. And the fact that we sit here and listen to elected officials of this country defend these lunatics who want us all dead. They want all of you dead. They want all of us dead.

They don't want us to disappear with a snap of a finger. They want us to be raped, burned alive, and cut into pieces. Watch the video from October 7. That's what they want to happen from Maine to San Diego, from Seattle to Miami. They want this country turned into a burning husk of its former self, and you don't have to theorize that.

That's what they do. From the 1983 barracks bombing, where 280 Marines were vaporized in a morning, from USS Cole to the Achille Lauro, to every terrorist attack, from the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas. These are not humanitarian freedom organizations. They are death-dealing cults, and they want all of us to die brutal deaths.

William Buckley was abducted in 1985, an American military officer. He was skinned alive on camera by the Iranians. American prisoners of war who were captured. They were never called prisoners of war because they were captured by lunatic terrorists, so they were not subject to the Geneva Convention. They were captured and murdered, power drills through their brains. This is in Iraq. These are families that have dealt with this, and they've never gotten a single dime.

These families have never gotten restitution, and not a single president has ever stood up to them. Love Donald Trump or hate him, love his policies, hate ICE, love ICE, whatever. There's never been a single president who has stood up to Iran and hit back. For 47 years, our troops and our families have been absorbing attack after attack after attack all over the world.

And their radical ideology does not stop at the Persian Gulf. It doesn't stop at Tel Aviv. They want to do this everywhere. It's a global radical ideology, and we've been fighting it for half a century.

We didn't start this war. We did not, but we will finish it. And forever wars are not popular with anybody these days. Both sides of the love to attack our forever wars. And I can promise you, being someone overseas wearing the uniform, when you're fighting for your country, you don't care what party's in office, but you're fighting to defend your country, and you turn on the news and see your elected officials stabbing you in the back, telling you that you're failing, that you've failed every goal of the war, is what I just heard.

Last time I checked, we've wiped these bastards out. An occasional missile strike and boats in the straits, that's not military strength. Those are the flailings of a failing empire. Those are the flailings of a nation in collapse because they deserve it. So I encourage our colleagues on both sides of the aisle, whatever's politically convenient, whatever plays well on Twitter or Facebook, think about the people who are deployed right now, standing on that wall with a loaded weapon, who have volunteered to defend our country and our way of life.

Because they are there defending us in a just war, because we did not start a war with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They started it with us 47 years ago, and their attacks have gone unanswered for half a century. It's time to fix this problem and make sure another generations of Americans does not have to fight this murderous, savage adversary."

[Earth @earthcurated]

True story: This year, Norway beat Brazil in soccer, and Brazil beat Norway in skiing.

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

BUILT IN THE WEST: HOOVER DAM

BUILT IN THE WEST: AMERICAN ENERGY

BUILT IN THE WEST: THE NATIONAL PARK IDEA

BUILT IN THE WEST: GENERATIONS OF RANCHING

BUILT IN THE WEST: THE AMERICAN COWBOY

America is the best, because of the West.

[Sean Paige @SeanPaige]

The @denverpost just spent 1,200 words trying to solve an alleged mystery I can solve in just 3 words.

The question? How did Colorado lose its competitive edge? Why is the state in such steep decline?

The Post wastes 1,200 words diplomatically dancing around one elephant in the room -- an elephant named Jared Polis https://t.co/kroXE2LZ46
But I can solve the mystery of Colorado's business climate decline in just three words: One. Party. Rule.

The piece wrings its hands over job losses, plunging business rankings, and fleeing startups, while performing Olympic-level gymnastics to avoid naming the obvious culprit: one-party Democratic rule, complete with a billionaire “business wiz” governor who’s been at the helm for eight long years.

Instead of confronting reality, the Post treats us to the usual ritual: quotes from concerned business leaders, vague nods to “headwinds,” and glowing coverage of Gov. Jared Polis bravely announcing . . . another task force and listening tour (as if we don't know what's really gone wrong in Colorado).

Because nothing says “decisive leadership” like waiting until the final months of your term -- after the state shed 6,200 payroll jobs in just 18 months, ranked 12th-worst nationally in total job losses and 14th-worst in percentage terms, and watched its startup ecosystem suffer the largest numeric decline in the country -- to finally ask businesses what’s wrong.

The numbers paint a brutal picture: Colorado has tumbled to 25th in CNBC’s “America’s Top States for Business” (from perennial top-10 darling, including #1 in 2011), dragged down by a pathetic 49th in cost of living, 38th in cost of doing business, and 32nd in infrastructure. The ALEC “Rich States, Poor States” index has it at a dismal 29th, a sharp fall from recent years and a far cry from its second-place ranking in 2008. Companies are bolting for greener pastures, talent recruitment has become a nightmare amid sky-high housing costs, and even the departure of big names like Palantir barely scratches the surface of the quiet erosion in entrepreneurial energy.

Yet the Post frames this as some mysterious fog that rolled in, rather than the predictable result of years of accumulating mandates, regulatory piling-on, and a political culture that vilifies the private sector, decries the profit motive, and treats business as an ATM for funding pet "progressive" priorities.

The Post does note, almost in passing, that Colorado has shifted from purple to solidly blue since 2011. But heaven forbid they connect the dots. Polis, the polished entrepreneur-turned-governor, gets portrayed as the thoughtful reformer riding to the rescue, not the architect of (or willing participant in) the very policy environment -- workplace mandates, housing strangulation, infrastructure neglect, a business-bashing legislature -- that made the state less competitive. Eight years of solid Democratic majorities in the legislature, a steady barrage of "progressive" meddling, and a general attitude that innovative companies should just be grateful to locate in this beautiful people’s republic -- and the Post acts shocked, shocked, that the state is now hanging out “under the bleachers” with the also-rans.

The elephant isn’t just in the room -- it’s been trampling the state’s business climate for nearly a decade, passing bills, ballooning budgets, and appointing rogue regulators to runaway commissions, while the media politely averts its gaze. Colorado didn’t suddenly become expensive, regulated, and complacent by accident. It chose this path, repeatedly, at the ballot box and in the State House. The Post’s greatest contribution here is providing cover: acknowledge the decline just enough to seem serious, then pivot to process theater and hope readers forget who’s been in charge.

#copolitics #coleg @GovofCO

[New York Post @nypost]

Bear climbs atop utility pole along New Mexico highway https://t.co/KzByASfphM

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

The reason a lot of people don't like Israel now, aside from the propaganda campaign against them, is because they simply decided after October 7 to do what is necessary and what is right regardless of how the crowd perceives it. That is, they came back to reality.

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

We appreciate the enthusiasm for American Energy Dominance, but this isn't what we meant.

[Bill Mitchell @mitchellvii]

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 BRILLIANCE: THE REAL REASON TRUMP CHOSE TO ATTACK IRAN!

It's pure mathematics, and it's brilliant strategic thinking.

Senator Hagerty just explained Trump's Iran decision, and it demolishes every Democratic criticism. Trump didn't act on emotion or a whim. He ran the numbers.

Iran was producing cheap ballistic missiles and drones at scale while the U.S. has expensive defensive systems that take time to build.

Here's the math: if Iran keeps flooding the zone with cheap weapons fast enough, eventually they overwhelm our defenses. Once they do, they have unlimited time to finish their nuclear program.

It's asymmetrical warfare 101.

Trump saw the trajectory. He understood where this goes. He acted to break the cycle before Iran reaches that point.

That's not recklessness. That's strategic clarity.

The Obama deal handed Iran money for terrorism and a path to nukes. Trump saw the trap and he closed it.

Democrats can criticize the timing. They can't criticize the logic.

[The Ben Shapiro Show @BenShapiroShow]

Well, this got awkward...👀

[Juanca @Nanosecso]

El de la izquierda se pasó 10 años en Inglaterra, el de la derecha lleva 5 en EEUU. Ninguno de los dos saben decir dos frases seguidas en inglés.

Encuentra el denominador común.

[Will Stone @CoachWillStone]

Rule 2. Walking at 3mph on a 12-15% incline burns 70% more fat than running flat (And doesn’t hurt your knee)

Rule 3. Study says plank for 3 min for 15 day straight can burn belly fat.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Norway is bad for the environment:

[François Valentin @Valen10Francois]

One of the weirdest stories in geopolitics

Azerbaijan has been funding every anti-French independence movements under the sun ever since France supported Armenia over Karabakh (including weapon sales)

As a result there is an annual summit against French imperialism in Baku and in New Caledonia the independence movement waves the Azeri flag... On top of infowars against France and all the lot

Now you have its president calling for the "liberation" of islands like Martinique who have been French longer than Nice or Corsica

The independence movements there are tiny, with the exception of New Caledonia which has held 3 referendums on independence. The locals voted to stay all 3 times.

Astonishing spite and dedication, but positively bizarre