Nick Viest

“Stay close to the Americans” WSC “All’s well that ends well.” WS “The people’s will, constitutionally expressed, is the ultimate law for all.” AL

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

Watch CNBC's full interview with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent https://t.co/ZhZ8xMsULj

[Charles Murray @charlesmurray]

My daughter's friend in grad school, upon being asked by a member of her dissertation committee why she didn't include a Marxist perspective. "I grew up in the Soviet Union. I don't practice recreational Marxism."

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@JewsFightBack General Keane is right.

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@atrupar The parade is about the Knicks and not Mayor Mamdani. It’s not the occasion to make a 10 minute speech. If he was truly a Knicks fan he would keep it short and make the moment more about this incredible team.

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@NY1 @errollouis Fancy running for Congress and not knowing what fascism is.

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@ESPNNewYork Winner

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@nicolegelinas @SalvatoreDiMag2 @NYCMayor I think it’s too early to acknowledge how he is managing crime. It’s not clear to me what he has done to produce some of the lower numbers. I would rather wait and see before commenting on the crime results. We can say that he has been less than supportive of law enforcement.

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@DemzDeliver The Democrats who post this aren’t really Democrats as we know them. They are socialists advocating government takeover over of the private sector.

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@WSJopinion Interesting piece by Mr Swaim. Churchill continued, ”…but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest” Perhaps discerning Mr Putin is discerning Russian national interest.

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@SalvatoreDiMag2 @nicolegelinas @NYCMayor It seems too early to congratulate Mayor Mamdani. He has also shown little in the way of real support for police officers whenever ideology or political agenda conflict with that support.

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

None of that is true. Mossedegh was not democratically elected and the US did not overthrow him. Of course the Iranian regime and the left wing US intelligentsia love this story albeit for different reasons. https://t.co/pzP3UGpw25

The US is the one hope that the people of Iran have.

[Jack Carr @JackCarrUSA]

The people of Normandy showing up for our World War II veterans! What an honor it was to be there with them today! Thank you to the Best Defense Foundation for all you do for our Greatest Generation 🙏🇺🇸

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

On D-Day, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Dwight D. Eisenhower sent thousands of young men into the hardest hours of their lives.

Nearly 20 years later, he returned to Normandy, not only as a former president, but as the commander who never forgot the cost.

“They bought us time so we can do better.”

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

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[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@officialKeef There never was and never will be another drummer like Charlie Watts. RIP Charlie Watts.

[Tony Jacob | FindaClip.com @tonjkb]

Modern history frames the American Founders' hypocrisy on slavery as the ultimate proof that their ideals were a lie. But Coleman Hughes argues the exact opposite. Writing "all men are created equal" while owning slaves wasn't America's fatal flaw.

To be a hypocrite, you first have to state a moral standard.

Most historical empires avoided this problem entirely. Hughes notes that Ottoman sultans could simply point to texts legalizing slavery. No clash of values meant no internal pressure to change.

America put itself in a moral corner. By putting equality on paper, the Founders gave abolitionists a weapon. They created a cognitive dissonance that eventually forced a resolution.

This defines the current debate over American history.

The 1619 Project looks at the founding hypocrisy and declares the system structurally condemned.

Martin Luther King Jr. looked at the exact same hypocrisy and saw a promissory note waiting to be cashed.

You cannot hold a society accountable to a standard that does not exist. The founding ideals did not excuse the system. They gave future generations the exact leverage needed to break it.

Source: @JTLonsdale @coldxman

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@nyccommonsense There never was a “budget crisis”.

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

@katrosenfield @powellAtlantic Often those who claim to want to create a better world are those who would destroy people to attain it.

[j wall ✡ @jwhaifa]

In 1943, the Gestapo finally caught Raymond Aubrac — one of France's most wanted Resistance leaders. He was sentenced to death. His execution was days away.
His wife Lucie was six months pregnant.
Most people would have hidden. Would have grieved quietly and prayed for a miracle. Lucie Aubrac did something else entirely. She obtained forged identity papers, constructed a cover story, and walked straight into the office of Klaus Barbie — the man history would remember as the Butcher of Lyon — and convinced him to grant her a visit with the condemned man.
She wasn't there to say goodbye.
She was memorizing guard positions. Counting minutes. Mapping the route the prison truck would take.
On October 21, 1943, that truck rolled through the streets of Lyon carrying Raymond and other prisoners toward what should have been the end. Lucie had spent weeks quietly assembling a team of Resistance fighters, planning an ambush with the precision of a military operation. When the truck reached the ambush point, the team struck — fast, coordinated, and without hesitation.
In the chaos of gunfire and confusion, Raymond Aubrac was pulled free.
Lucie — visibly, unmistakably pregnant — had organized every detail of his liberation.
They went into hiding. Weeks later, Lucie gave birth to their daughter in a safe house while German forces searched for them across France. When liberation finally came, the Aubracs didn't merely survive — they rebuilt.
Raymond became a celebrated engineer and entered public life. Lucie became a historian, pouring decades into ensuring that the women of the French Resistance — so often unnamed, so easily forgotten — were written permanently into the record. They raised three children. They traveled the world. They argued and laughed and grew old together.
When journalists asked Lucie, years later, what had compelled her to risk everything that October day, she didn't hesitate.
"He was my husband. What else would I do?"
Lucie Aubrac passed away in 2007 at the age of 94. Raymond — who had once needed a commando team to be freed from a German prison — lived on until 2012, reaching 97 years old. In his final years, he continued speaking publicly about the Resistance, about memory, about the obligation to tell the truth.
They had been married for 64 years.
Not a love story built on grand gestures or perfect circumstances. A love story built in occupied France, in safe houses and forged documents and a prison truck ambush on a Lyon street — forged in fire, and never broken.
True love doesn't wait for rescue. Sometimes, it does the rescuing

[Nick Viest @NickViest]

Secretary Rubio is right.

[Siaxares 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 @siaxares]

As an Iranian who’s living under the Islamic regime’s boot, I’m telling you: Marco Rubio just nailed it.

The Islamic Republic would rather pour millions into Hamas rapists and Hezbollah murderers than build roads, bridges, or feed their own citizens. That’s why Iranians are always in the streets. Our economy is deliberately destroyed so the regime can fund global terror.

But make no mistake. We are ALL on the same ship — Iranians, Americans, Jews, and every free soul alive. Right now, we’re trapped in the bottom deck. If the IRGC floods this ship, we drown first… but your turn is coming soon after.

Look at the real hand of evil: the Islamic Republic, Mullahs and its IRGC. They are the world’s #1 sponsor of terrorism, assassinations, mass Muslim migration as a weapon, economic sabotage, rape, and chaos everywhere.

They assassinate dissidents, target civilians, and destabilize nations — and still the diplomats talk “peaceful solutions.” There is no nation on Earth that sponsors more terrorism than Iran.

We Iranians know this evil better than anyone. We’ve buried 40,000+ of our brothers and sisters. The IRGC isn’t a “boogeyman” — it is the architect of most of the world’s pain. @SecRubio can understand better than most, because as a Cuban, his people also suffer a similar fate under an evil regime.

Wake up. This isn’t just our fight. If the bottom deck floods, the whole ship sinks.

My people's internet is cut due to the #DigitalBlackOutIran‌. But I will always try to be the missing voice, thanks to Starlink.

Free Iran. Crush the IRGC.

#KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran
#IranMassacre‌