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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.” ― Ayn Rand

[Philip @PHawk200]

When Ukraine finally wins this war it should immediately Join NATO.

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

The man with the shopping bags.
I always found something deep in this.

Shopping bags vs tanks.

Liberty vs collectivism.

Life vs death.

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

When do I get to wake up from this fever dream?

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Will the English team take the knee for Henry Nowak at the World Cup?

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[Yaron Brook @yaronbrook]

This is a joke, right? Another deadline -- is anyone counting how many have been given.
Stop threatening and act, NOW, to end the Iranian regime, or at least weaken it to the point, the Iranian people can overthrow it...

[John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton]

The U.S. pummeled the Islamic Republic of Iran for 6 weeks, and every day of negotiations undoes our efforts. This is a tragedy.

https://t.co/2sHpMTzTLP

[John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton]

Every day of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran is a gift to the regime. These talks have postponed the regime’s day of reckoning. The ceasefire and subsequent negotiations are a total mistake.

https://t.co/2sHpMTzlWh

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Walter Rodney was wrong.

Africans are poor because too many African countries make it hard to start businesses, get permits, access reliable electricity, trade freely, protect property, enforce contracts, attract investment, and keep the rewards of hard work.

Singapore is richer than Britain, its former colonizer.

Switzerland, which never built a colonial empire, is richer than Spain and Portugal, two of the greatest imperial powers in history.

[Handre @Handre]

Hong Kong became the world's greatest economic miracle through the radical absence of government interference in trade, not through government planning.

From 1960 to 1997, Hong Kong's GDP per capita grew from $428 to over $27,000 — a 63-fold increase that dwarfed every other economy on earth. The secret? Zero tariffs on imports, zero export taxes, zero quotas, zero trade licenses. You could dock a ship full of Swedish steel in Victoria Harbor, unload it, process it into electronics, and ship those electronics to California without paying a single cent to bureaucrats. Free market economists call this "comparative advantage in action." Normal people call it common sense.

The results speak louder than any central planner's fantasies. Hong Kong handled more container traffic than any port in the world by the 1990s despite having virtually no natural resources. Manufacturers from around the globe set up operations there because they could import raw materials and export finished goods without navigating tariff schedules thicker than phone books. Capital flowed in because entrepreneurs faced actual profit signals instead of politically distorted prices created by trade barriers.

Compare this to the economic disasters created by protectionist policies everywhere else. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 turned a recession into the Great Depression by strangling international trade. Modern America's steel tariffs force domestic manufacturers to pay artificially inflated prices for inputs, making them less competitive globally. Every tariff is a tax on your own citizens masquerading as protection for special interests.

Trade barriers destroy the wealth creation process that makes higher-paying jobs possible in the first place.

[John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton]

The ceasefire in Iran has only benefited the regime. It’s enabled the regime to pick itself up off the ground and start to rebuild its arsenal. We will look back on this lengthy ceasefire and come to realize it was a mistake.

[David Vance @DavidVance]

It appears he was talking to himself.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Mr President,

Maybe you should stop negotiating with a terrorist state that has tried to assassinate yourself and now your daughter also.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

I am deeply concerned about what we are hearing about an Iran “deal,” being pushed by some voices in the administration.

President Trump’s decision to strike Iran was the most consequential decision of his second term. He was right to do so, and we achieved extraordinary military results—including destroying all of their missiles & drones and sinking their entire navy.

If the result of all that is to be an Iranian regime—still run by Islamists who chant “death to America”—now receiving billions of dollars, being able to enrich uranium & develop nuclear weapons, and having effective control over the Strait of Hormuz, then that outcome would be a disastrous mistake.

The details are still coming out—and I pray the early reports are wrong—but the fact that Biden’s Rob Malley is praising the deal is not encouraging.

President Trump believes in peace through strength, and his strong leadership has already made America much safer. He should continue to hold the line, defend America & enforce the red lines he has repeatedly drawn.

[David Vance @DavidVance]

“Help is on the way”
The only help I see is to the Tehran regime ….

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

History teaches us that peace deals are best made after the enemy is defeated or surrendered.

[Nicholas Lissack @NicholasLissack]

I’ve supported Trump from the first day of his 2016 campaign.

Any deal with Iran’s terrorist regime ends that support forever and would be the greatest betrayal in American history.

Honour your promises, or go down worse than Carter and Obama combined.​ (@realDonaldTrump)

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iranians didn't sacrifice their lives for Trump to sign JCPOA 2.0.

[Ben Bayer @BenBayer]

When you kick the can down the road you should really try not to use the exactly same formula you did last time ("At the request of foreign leader X, we decided not to attack..."), especially when it so obviously underscores your humiliating lack of agency.

[Ben Bayer @BenBayer]

@marklevinshow Nice try at pivoting from this to criticize the antisemites (who do deserve criticism). But why in hell wouldn’t you also criticize POTUS himself for making yet another excuse for NOT doing what you yourself say he should do? The diversionary tactic won’t work.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Reza Pahlavi to Trump:

"You cannot have it both ways. You cannot say 'people, we'll keep you on ice while we figure something else out.' That is a very hard way to convince people you're serious. Stay the course. Get the job done."

[Dionisa🌻🕸️🦩 @ofkaradag]

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