phil mohat

All this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

There is no freedom of speech when people are terrified of being wrong.
-Garrison Keillor

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Exactly

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

@Michael7ucci @RepRoKhanna Probably because Khanna is a CCP asset. Follow his money and I wouldn’t be surprised if it led back to his paymasters across the Pacific

[Michael Lucci @Michael7ucci]

My response to @RepRoKhanna's self-immolation in committee today:

Ro Khanna owes the American people an apology.

I've testified in 20 state capitols across the country. I've never seen a lawmaker embarrass himself like Ro Khanna did today.

Ro is a leader of the most important committee for countering the Chinese Communist Party. Instead of dealing in substance and policy, he pulled out the race card in the most self-embarrassing way today while also peddling ridiculous conspiracy theories.

The American people need real solutions to acute national security issues. Ro Khanna is burning up committee time on nonsense.

Here's what happened: I testified today about how American state lawmakers are being threatened, harassed and attacked by Chinese state-tied actors. Our military installations are being closely surveilled. Chinese-Americans are being hunted down by CCP government agents. Critical infrastructure is being attacked.

Rep. Khanna ignored all those threats, *including threats to fellow Democrats who are currently sitting state lawmakers.* Honestly, I'm shocked that it did not register with him that a Chinese company threatened a Democrat state official. Instead, Ro dug up a tweet where I criticized CCP birth tourism and tried to call me racist.

Of course, he completely failed.

I oppose birth tourism schemes through which CCP military and political leaders get U.S. citizenship for their children by giving birth in Saipan and then raising their children loyal to the CCP in China. It's completely crazy that we allow this. @peterschweizer has documented this scandal in his recent book. This shouldn't be a partisan issue.

And here's the context: Ro was angry that I criticized birth tourism as a part of my criticism of two Chinese-Americans who attempted to bomb MacDill Air Force Base earlier this year. According to Rep. Khanna, the bombers Alen Zheng (20) and his sister Ann Mary Zheng (27) achieved American citizenship through some sort of birthright program. It's unclear whether they were just born and raised here, or if they were a part of the Saipan scheme I criticized.

But either way, Ro Khanna was lifting up and defending people who were basically terrorists who tried to bomb CENTCOM March 10th of this year. Then he turned around and claimed the real problem is racists who think birth tourism is a bad idea.

Guess who thinks birth tourism is a bad idea? 75% of the American people according to a YouGov poll from last year: "The group Americans are least likely to say should automatically receive U.S. citizenship — of the nine asked about in the survey — is children born in the U.S. to parents who are tourists visiting the country. 25% of Americans, including 11% of Republicans and 41% of Democrats, think children born to tourists on American soil should automatically receive U.S. citizenship."

Sorry 75% of Americans who have common sense. @RepRoKhanna thinks you're all racists!

Furthermore, with the CCP, we are talking about cases where a child in simply born on a U.S. pacific island and then returns to China within days, never to see the USA again. Ro Khanna apparently thinks giving citizenship to all of these people is a great idea, even if they are completely loyal to the CCP, absolutely hate the USA, and have never stepped foot in our country.

To me and to practically anyone with common sense who analyzes the CCP, this is an obvious vector for CCP grey-zone political warfare. For example, imagine 1,500,000 CCP loyalists raised entirely in China voting across swing states in our elections.

Nonetheless, Ro Khanna went on a rant to claim that I'm an anti-Chinese racist because I oppose this obviously ridiculous birth tourism scheme.

Now here's where Ro really jumped the shark. In his rush to conjure up a triple bank-shot conspiracy theory to try to claim I'm a racist, he apparently didn't do any homework to find out anything about me.

I'm married to an immigrant from China who became an American citizen in 2019. We have 4 wonderful children who are, of course, half Chinese by ethnicity. Ro was ranting at the dais claiming I'm racist against my own family simply because I oppose all the various schemes of the genocidal Chinese Communist Party, and I hold a position on birth tourism shared by 75% of the American people. And I bet it would be way higher than 75% if the question was focused on the CCP Saipan scheme.

As I told Ro in committee, calling someone an anti-Chinese racist for opposing the CCP is like calling someone an anti-Italian racist for opposing the mafia. Both examples are absurd. Embarrassingly so.

The American people need real leaders and real national security solutions from both federal and state governments. That's what we work on every day at @StateArmor.

We don't need @RepRoKhanna wasting time be-clowning himself in committee when there is so much real work that needs to be done.

Ro insulted me and my family today. But honestly, I don't know anyone who puts any value in what Ro says. So that doesn't really matter. Today's self-embarrassment was just one more part of Ro's ongoing self-immolation that includes endorsing Nazi-sympathetic candidates, claiming @elonmusk killed millions of kids, and being one of the most prolific stock traders in Congress. And that's just in the last few weeks.

But here's what matters: Ro Khanna is an elected official who is tasked with dealing with our most urgent national security issues, like those I brought before him and the @ChinaSelect committee today. And instead of engaging in a real policy discussion, he destroyed our ability to work together on real solutions to counter the attacks by the Chinese Communist Party.

For that, he owes the American people an apology.

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

@CollinRugg He is a man doing what a man should. I approve

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Do you still say “cows” when you pass cows while driving or have you lost your whimsy?

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

@JamesGunn Not my cup of tea. Thanks though.

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock]

>Buzz has existential crisis and gets depressed
>Immediately starts crossdressing and attempts to commit suicide

I don’t think this is the message you want to send

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

The Restore Britain candidate for Greater Manchester mayor, Marlon West, has a daughter who is a rape gang survivor.

Marlon would often spend his evenings driving in search of his daughter until three or four am while having work the following day.

He often reported her missing to the police, who would sometimes turn up to his house many hours later. On one occasion he saw footage of the police saying not to bother even waking him.

A multi-agency risk management meeting was eventually convened with children’s services and the police’s Missing from Home team. While the meeting was ongoing one of the police officers in attendance told Marlon to stop reporting his daughter missing.

Marlon challenged this which resulted in the police officer shouting at him in front of all in attendance. The officer has since been dismissed.

The social worker and manager present did not intervene but privately acknowledged he was right to continue to report his daughter missing. They refused to launch a formal complaint against the officer.

After another missing episode Marlon was able to trace his daughter to a specific property. Despite repeated calls and reports of men entering the property both police and social services failed to remove her or issue an abduction warning notice.

His daughter was later found to be the victim of criminal exploitation, including drug supply, prostitution and being forced to dig up a firearm. These acts were directed by the older woman amongst others.

At this point the impact on Marlon was catastrophic. He was physically exhausted, anxious, depressed and lived in constant fear. He was attacked by masked individuals in his home with the police response delayed and dismissive.

Despite his repeated attempts to help his daughter, he has experienced many instances of violence from her as a result of the trauma and grooming. He has experienced many assaults, received black eyes and had to sleep barricaded in his room.

Marlon has since dedicated his life to stopping the rape gangs.

He has done more than any politician to fight this evil.
We are proud to back him to be the mayor of Greater Manchester, where he can end the rape gangs in the region for good.

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

@PiperK @billprady Well. I’ve been told by some experts for a while the world is overpopulated.

[Asmongold Updates @Asmon_Updates]

Asmongold explains Keir Starmer's resignation using a WoW raid strategy and it makes perfect sense

"Labour just performed a tank swap. Starmer had too many debuffs so they pulled him out and brought in a new tank."

"The new guy is going to do the same thing for the same raid. They're tanking the same boss in the same way."

"You're Onyxia. Don't fall for the tank swap. He's not the organization. You didn't win, they just reset your aggro."

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

I went to a prestigious prep school (Choate).

By default, I know way too many people who slid into the USAID grifter circuit.

It’s way worse than you think: nauseating buzzword-filled circle-jerks on Zoom calls, business-class conferences in Zurich, private champagne dinners, and endless layers of outsourcing (each one taking their fat cut) - all on unlimited expense accounts.

Saying 90% of the “aid” disappears into admin, overhead, and fraud is a gross understatement.

And for what?

So these con artists can LARP as humanitarian saviors, feign respectability, and send their kids to private school…

…all on the backs of hardworking American taxpayers.

It's a lifestyle racket. A facade.

And the worst part is that we're all expected to hold these people in high regard.

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

@voteSmitherman The steady decline of a city starts in the schools and the roads. Probably see the steady movement of young parents into outer suburbs with better school districts. Further eroding tax base needed to maintain infrastructure. IMO

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Getty Images might be the biggest legal scam operating in plain sight and almost nobody talks about it.

Here is how it works. They take photos they do NOT own. Public domain images. Work that legally belongs to every single one of us. They slap their watermark on it, throw it in their catalog, and charge you hundreds of dollars to use a picture they had no right to sell in the first place.

It gets worse.

A photographer named Carol Highsmith spent years documenting America and then GAVE over 18,000 of her photos to the Library of Congress. For free. For everyone. No strings attached. Her gift to the public.

Getty took those free photos, watermarked them, and started selling licenses. Then they had the nerve to send Highsmith a bill for $120 for using HER OWN photograph on HER OWN website.

Read that again. They charged the artist for her own work that she gave away for free.

She sued them for $1 billion.

And here is the part that should make your blood boil. This is not a one time mistake. This is the business model. Take what is free, claim it as yours, intimidate people with legal threats, and cash the check. They are betting that you will be too scared or too confused to fight back.

How is this legal? How have we let a company get rich selling things that belong to all of us? How many small creators got threatening letters and just paid up because they did not know any better?

We put up with it because they count on us not paying attention.

Start paying attention.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A century ago, one in every four big trees in the eastern forests of America was a chestnut, and every autumn the country under them ate for free.

The American chestnut was a giant, a hundred feet tall, and there were close to four billion of them from Maine to the Deep South. Each autumn they dropped a carpet of sweet nuts so thick you raked it up by the sackful. Families roasted them all winter. Hogs and cattle were turned loose in the woods to fatten on them for nothing. Turkey, deer and bear lived off the same mast. The timber, straight and rot-proof, built the barns, the fence posts and the furniture. One tree fed the people, fattened the livestock, carried the wildlife through winter, then built the house.

Then in 1904 a blight arrived on imported Asian chestnut stock, spotted first on the trees at the Bronx Zoo. It moved through the forest at fifty miles a year, and by the 1940s it had killed close to four billion trees, nearly every mature chestnut on the continent. One of the worst ecological catastrophes in the country's history.

Here is the part that should stop you. The tree is not quite dead. The old roots still send up shoots, year after year, that the blight cuts down before they grow tall enough to fruit. A century on, the stumps are still trying, and still failing.

A free harvest that fed a continent every autumn for thousands of years, gone in forty, and still reaching for a sky it will never reach again.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

The claim that “rape did not exist among native nations prior to white contact” is ahistorical garbage pushed by third worldist ideologues who need the West to be uniquely evil.

The “noble savage” was never real. He was a blood soaked warrior, slaver, and rapist just like every other human who ever lived outside the slow, brutal discipline of civilization.

Pre-Columbian Americas had constant intertribal war, captive taking, slavery, and empires built on mass human sacrifice. Some groups punished adultery with gang rape. Raiding parties seized women as spoils. Mesoamerican civilizations ran on coercion and sexual dominance.

Rape is a human universal tied to power, lust, and tribal competition. The idea that only “white contact” introduced it is the most condescending racism imaginable, stripping indigenous peoples of agency and full humanity to score points in a decolonization fanfic.

History to leftists is some false morality play where non-Western societies were peaceful egalitarians and the West invented sin.

But the noble savage myth is dead. And we’re not playing this bullshit game anymore.

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

@iAnonPatriot I know East Cleveland. Don’t go to East Cleveland

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

@iamyesyouareno You’d think the current French population would be used to desert like temperatures.

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

@Variety You guys are so out of touch these days. Not a single fan of his cares. And if anything you’ve just increased his fame even more and widened his audience.

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

@jonstallings @MilHistNow Incorrect. But I recommend you watch the documentary. It’s very good

[phil mohat @phillihpmhat]

@TheStingisBack @collo282 It was actually pretty good. I found the development of their friendship kind of sweet.
Both main actors did a good job.
Especially like the Maneater in piano scene