optical wonder

[Link Lauren @itslinklauren]

As we know, Hollywood is a dark demonic place. I don’t think it’s a coincidence what’s happening with Perez Hilton right now. Look at Ariana Grande’s music video just a few days ago. Lots of darkness and occult imagery being pushed online these days. And I know several high profile people who dabble in witchcraft and dark arts in their free time. There’s a reason I stay home 90% of the time and mind my own business. Protecting my energy. We all should. ♥️🙏

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

After perusing 25,000 comments in the past two days, most of which attempt to explain why Americans are voting for Communists, socialists, and antisemites in record numbers, I’ve done the only rational thing a man in my position can do; I’ve agreed to go on Real Time with Bill Maher this Friday to talk about it.

What could possibly go wrong?

I was also inspired by all the "sturm und drang" to make a quick commercial that highlights one of our many scholarship recipients who mastered a trade, and then went on to open her own business. Her name is Maryssa, and while I have no idea what her politics might be, I can assure you that her attitude, her initiative, and her work ethic are proof positive that the American Dream is still in reach, for any who would grab it and go.

Currently, we have $10 million in scholarships set aside to help people like Maryssa. People who want to build a prosperous life for themselves by learning a skill that's in demand and going to work. Apply at https://t.co/ju76O0XWgC.

[Benjamin Domenech @bdomenech]

Twitch speed

[optical wonder @opticalwonder]

@Delilah1378335 @bdomenech @MeghanMcCain It has always been rough. We could not buy a house either. Interest rates were 17% under Jimmy Carter. We never took vacations or ate out so we could save for a home. I know it is hard but saving is the answer. we did not have people crossing the border driving down wages either

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

...Faulkner interrupted and said that sounded a bit like a death wish. Harper shrugged it off and continued to attack "really old" establishment figures. Many such figures continue to believe that the mob will embrace them while destroying their opponents. History shows that they are deluding themselves. https://t.co/7SkLWl7J1c

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Remember that 19 Yazidi girls were burned alive in iron cages by ISIS for refusing to convert to Islam and become sex slaves.

ISIS paraded them through the streets of Mosul, then burned them in front of hundreds of people.

Not a single Muslim or pro-Palestinian activist protested for the Yazidis!

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

A statement from Bell Bird Books explaining their cancellation of “White Bonde Jew” book launch.
When Bell Bird books initially announced the launch, they received pushback from people who don’t believe Jews have a right to have their voice heard or even a right for Israel to exist. All of us who have been active in this space have experienced exactly this. It’s the price you pay for speaking up for the Jewish people, for Israel, for Western Civilization, and for fighting antisemitism. It comes with the territory. If we allow haters to continually silence Jewish voices, then they win. Yes, there is definitely a cost - financially, socially, relationally. But one bears that burden because of all those who have come before us - the Holocaust victims in WWll, the victims of the World Trade Center attack; the slaughtered Christians in Nigeria; the innocents murdered on October 7th; for the Bibas family, for Hersch Goldberg Polin, for those who survived but who have ended their lives because of unbearable pain inflicted upon them; for all those young Israelis who are currently giving their lives to protect not only their own country but our way of life in the West. We do it for them, and for the future good of the world. It requires a foundational commitment to truth that will not be comprised, that will not back down. That is the only way. That is the Nashville way. https://t.co/OBJ37yPIap

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

HEARTBREAKING: Her 10-month-old baby was cut in half with a knife in front of her, her husband shot dead, and she watched them split her second child's head with a machete. They also cut off one of her hands.

This is life for Christians in Nigeria. The media remains silent.

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

This 10 month old girl just graduated from ISR infant survival rescue.

[Benjamin Domenech @bdomenech]

For six months in the runup to the 2024 election I said Trump would win and it wouldn't be close. On election night in NYC I was the only person who said we'd call it before midnight.

GOPers liked what I was saying then. I wish they'd listen when I'm warning things are dire now.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

For those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about:

🚨So here's the REAL story:

Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.

Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.

It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!

THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.

Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.

So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

Standing in line at CVS today to pick up a prescription for Yolanda. They were still 10 minutes from reopening after lunch (yes, really), and about 60 people were waiting.

An older gentleman—a Navy veteran—and I started talking about Fauci’s refusal to testify. Before long, it felt like the entire line was listening. I was about to take a poll when we realized something surprising: roughly 90% of the people around us had no idea what we were talking about.

Most had never even heard of the Fauci diary.

Whether you see that as concerning or not, it says something about how fragmented the public information landscape has become.

And yes, folks, this is today’s America, and why Bolsheviks, jihadists, and Marxists are winning elections.

Americans have had it too good for too long, and their complacency is about to cost them it all.

[Casey Krol @CaseyKrol]

Happening now in Spain, the Bishop was right:

"They are not refugees, they're invaders who want to Islamize Europe. They want to destroy Europe's religion and culture" ✝️

Do you support the Bishop?

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at...

The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power.

Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually.

That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made...

Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept.

There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it:

"Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

[optical wonder @opticalwonder]

@FreddyLA7 The Ohio State University! Let’s Go.

[Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich]

The UK government is trying to stop the publication of One Man In by Christian Craighead @one_man_in. They really don’t want this first hand account about the Islamic terror attack in Kenya to come out, why? Please share.

https://t.co/s2MsjEdT7I

[Paul Mauro @PaulDMauro]

She's got more cojones than all of them

[optical wonder @opticalwonder]

@bdomenech I don’t believe it. Most I know downsized

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Never forget October 7.

Hamas terrorists murdered an 18-year-old girl in front of her entire family, then they dragged her father away, kidnapped him, and murdered him in captivity.

They proudly filmed every second of it.