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🚨 JUST IN: Another win for President Trump's plan to make our nation’s capitol BEAUTIFUL again.
The Lincoln Memorial Undercroft, a hidden 15,000 sq ft space unseen since 1922, opens June 25. Conservative Philanthropist, Ken Griffin, will provide Abraham Lincoln signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment on display for ALL Americans to see.
Democrats ran Washington DC into the ground for decades.
Trump is fixing it! 🇺🇸
Hey @grok, why don't schools teach that only 1.3% of Americans owned slaves at the peak of slavery, only 4% of transatlantic slavery made it to the USA, 100% of African slaves were enslaved by Africans and over 1 million White Europeans were enslaved in Africa and the Middle East.
Source: New York Post
The FBI thwarted an explosive drone attack against Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House South Lawn and have already taken five suspects into custody, it was revealed Tuesday.
The multi-phase terror attack allegedly involved using explosive-laden drone aircraft to strike buildings in the vicinity of the event, sparking mass panic and driving the fleeing crowd toward a sniper team poised to pick them off, officials told Fox News Digital.
A “second wave” of attackers then allegedly planned to storm the White House gate, officials said.
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Jenny Story: Conservative Christian candidate loses mayoral race in Frisco, TX after Muslim and Hindu voters unite to support the opposition.
The Divided States of America. A play right out of the Democrat handbook only they borrowed it. Division is straight out of the Marxist playbook.
No matter how many great things Trump is doing, no matter how much Trump is trying to bring back our America, the Dems along with their RINO friends are willing to die on the hill of a Divided country.
Think about all the great things Trump has done, think about how much his adversaries all resist. Trump is winning on many fronts and all they want to do is nitpick on how he got things done rather than embracing him getting them done.
He already proved them wrong on tariffs, peace through strength, just ask Iran, energy independence, he proved the border could be closed immediately, he has ICE deporting illegals, despite constant obstruction, he is making our safety a priority, he cut taxes so Americans can have more money in their pockets, he is moving America in the right direction, things you would normally celebrate but instead these Marxists have picked a Divided America as the hill to die on.
We are at a point where no matter what this man does they insist on remaining Divided. A Divided country, and a
Divided government.
I remember when a President gave a State of the Union speech both parties embraced the President. They clapped in Unity. It wasn’t all about Party, it was all about America. When did all this division get so bad? When did we start putting America and Americans last?
Look no further than that big eared Kenyan cocksucker. Obama was hand picked and was installed with a purpose. Division.
He and Michelle brought nothing but hatred, disrespect and division to our United States. Obama promised change unfortunately nothing included uniting our America. Race relations were set back at least 50 years and the black community got nothing but misery along with empty promises for their loyalty to him.
Here we are. We have a President who wants nothing more than a great America, a United America, a prosperous and safe America, he wants love thy neighbor, love of God, and he wants the American Dream resurrected.
What’s his reward for wanting a great America? Countless lawfare, endless impeachment inquiries, multiple attempts on his life, and a man who outthinks everyone in the room, constantly ridiculed for cognitive decline. That one is a doozy after this entire Biden scam.
Why? Why fight the guy who is winning for our country? Why fight the guy who is winning for the people? Why fight the guy who has the United States winning on the world stage?
Because Obama is still calling the shots. This is no longer the Democrat party, this is the Obama party and that is the cancer that needs to be cut out. He is in charge of the Dems decisions. Obama is the one that empowered Iran. Obama called war on the Catholic Churches and everything anti Jewish. Obama is responsible for all the Division.
It isn’t a coincidence Obama picked up residence in DC after his terms ended. He was only the 2nd President in history to do so. There are no coincidences.
It isn’t a secret about Obama’s intentions. He deported over 3 million Latinos and replaced them with Muslims, strategically placed all over our country. He replaced one brown with a different brown. The Mamdani elected in NYC, do you think that was a coincidence? This guy met at Obama’s house on more than one occasion with the Muslim Brotherhood in attendance. Still believe in coincidences?
All of this undermining going on while Trump is trying to save America.
The cat is out of the bag. The evidence against Obama is overwhelming. His trips to London is all for a purpose. Make no mistake. Obama is the snake. We must cut off the head of the snake. Trump has them all cornered & they know it. Now the wheels are turning. Obama’s indictments are coming. Trump will never rest until the snake is decapitated. That will define the return of Justice. That’s America first. Trust the process My two cents
Voici le chiffre qui devrait clore le débat. Le bloc militant le plus à gauche d'Amérique, celui qui parle au nom des minorités à longueur de journée, est composé à 67% de Blancs. Sept pour cent de Noirs (Pew, juin 2026). Le groupe le plus diplômé, le plus aisé, le plus connecté du pays. Ceux qui hurlent le plus fort au nom des opprimés sont, statistiquement, les plus privilégiés du tableau.
L'homosexuel discret qui ne se reconnaît pas dans le mégaphone. Le Noir conservateur. La femme qui refuse qu'on efface le mot femme. Tous traités en traîtres. Parce que le premier ennemi du militant n'est jamais l'adversaire d'en face. C'est le modéré de son propre camp. Le modéré est le danger absolu : il prouve, par sa seule existence, que le mégaphone ment quand il dit parler au nom de tous.
Everyone has been so impressed by Japanese fans cleaning up after themselves but most probably missed this beautiful moment at the post-game (🇳🇱2 - 2🇯🇵) press conference.
Toward the end after reporters were done asking questions, 🇯🇵head coach, Hajime Moriyasu, asked to speak one more time.
🗣️ “May I speak?”
He turned to the Dutch reporters in the room.
🗣️ “I think there are many Dutch reporters here as well, so I’d like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the people of the Netherlands once again.”
Moriyasu explained that when he became part of the Japan national team, Japanese football still had no professional league.
🗣️ “I was trained by a Dutch coach named Hans Ooft. It wasn’t just me. Japanese coaches in general were greatly influenced by him, which has led to the development of Japanese soccer today.”
He also mentioned another Dutch figure who shaped his career.
🗣️ “The legendary Dutch coach Wim Jansen served as the manager for J.League’s Sanfrecce Hiroshima and also as a coach for Urawa Reds, contributing to Japanese soccer.”
🗣️ “It’s not just those two. Many other coaches and players have contributed to raising the level of Japanese soccer, so I want to express my thanks. Thank you very much.”
What a masterclass in graciousness and gratitude. Imagine after a high-stakes match, instead of basking in glory and bravado (well-deserved in my opinion), the coach took to the microphone to... thank his opponents publicly and sincerely.
Japan's cultural operating system prizes harmony (wa), respect for precedent, and gratitude as a form of strength, not weakness. Japanese sports culture reflects its broader society where you'll see athletes bow to their opponents, thanking referees, and even crediting rivals or mentors.
Think of sumo wrestlers, Olympic athletes, or even bullet-train staff apologizing for a 30-second delay.
The Japanese have this concept of On (恩) - it is the sense of indebtedness to those who came before or helped you. It's what you'd expect from a culture that truly prizes continuity.
Moriyasu was acknowledging a real debt to Dutch coaches like Hans Ooft (who coached Japan in the early 90s and helped professionalize the game) and Wim Jansen. Japanese football openly credits foreign influences - Dutch "Total Football" philosophy, German organization, Brazilian flair - while building something distinctly their own. Few nations do this with such little ego.
Japan is pure class
Today, the Mass was denied to me in Ávila (Spain). I am the chaplain of a pilgrimage group from the United States. This pilgrims usually attend the Traditional Latin Mass, so they wanted to be accompanied by a priest who would celebrate in the Old Rite. We had the chapel booked, but we were told that this rite required authorization from the Bishop.
I went to the Episcopal Curia to request the authorization, so the Mass could take place. However, the Bishop, not to me personally, but through the Vicar General, categorically stated: “That Mass is prohibited in this diocese.” Prohibited why? And by what authority? Has this rite been abrogated?
I was going to celebrate it in a chapel with the group of pilgrims. What harm could possibly come to the world? The rite is exactly the same one used in the convents of the Discalced Carmelites, stemming from the reform of Saint Teresa of Ávila and Saint John of the Cross. The rite was good for those great saints, but now it is bad for us?
The Code of Canon Law - Canon 932 §1 - prohibits Masses outside of sacred places, except in cases of necessity: “The Eucharistic celebration must be carried out in a sacred place unless, in a particular case, necessity requires otherwise; in that case, it must be celebrated in a decent place.”
In this case, there was no necessity to celebrate the Mass in a hotel room, since we were surrounded by chapels and churches with beautiful altars (that are almost never used). The necessity was created by the Bishop himself, who, instead of promoting sacred things, decided to prohibit them.
Who benefited from the Mass being celebrated in a profane place? Was Our Lord more praised in a hotel room than He would have been in a church? Were the souls of the faithful more edified by seeing a table serving as an altar?
It is normal for people to be scandalized by these tyrannical and anti-pastoral decisions, especially from those who claim that everyone is welcome in the Church. But not everyone is. That is quite clear.
I have gone through several similar episodes before and remained silent. But this must be denounced, this cannot be the normal state of the Church. Pope Leo must act quickly to put an end to these abuses of authority.
There are quite a few similarities between Iran and Ukraine.
Both are CIA/Deep State proxies, that housed rogue WMDs created by the Obama administration.
Nuclear weapons in Iran. Biological weapons in Ukraine.
This means that both Trump and Putin are hunting Obama, and cleaning up his global network of rogue WMDs. Obama offshored US technology/weaponry, and gave US MIL grade nuclear/biological weapons to the Deep State families. That’s what both the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran are about. Obama’s global WMD terrorist network, that the Deep State intended to use to start WW3 and implement total global domination.
Russian MIL literally accused Obama of crimes against humanity at the UN for the biolabs in Ukraine, and Trump has openly accused Obama of giving Iran nuclear weapons. Both Trump and Putin want Obama and his administration for trying to start WW3 with rogue WMDs in Iran, Ukraine, and perhaps other places as well.
The current global geopolitical landscape revolves around the crimes committed by the Obama administration.
This envious attitude is a very real one and is exactly what destroyed Britain in the postwar era. Just look to Wentworth Woodhouse and the Fiztwilliam family
The Earls Fitzwilliam spent generations building a prosperous coal mining industry on their estate. They were beloved by the miners because they cared about miner safety, paid quite well, provided schools and such for the children of the miners, provided alternate work for the miners when the mines had to be temporarily shutdown, and otherwise were great employers who pushed the industry of the nation forward with a true sense of noblesse oblige
In so doing, they built up a stable and prosperous coal extraction effort that was worked by loving and loyal employees. As a result, they became immensely wealthy and used their wealth build Wentworth Woodhouse, one of the grandest and most gorgeous English country houses, and its beautiful parklands.
The miners by and large weren't envious. They had good jobs and good employers. All was stable, and everyone benefitted from the relationship
That state of things lasted for well over a century. In fact, the Fitzwilliams maintained good relations with their workers even when labor agitation elsewhere was a disaster for coal mine owners. The Fitzwilliams had done their duty, and were rewarded with loyalty for that
Such good behavior didn't matter when, in the aftermath of the Second World War, Attlee's Labour regime was elected. It nationalized all of British heavy industry, essentially, from the steel mills and railroads to the coal mines
That meant the Fitzwilliam mines were expropriated by the Labour regime
Yet worse, it meant a spiteful mutant named Manny Shinwell ordered the strip mining of all the coal on the estate, including through their beautiful and beloved parkland.
The workers still loved the Fitzwilliams, and they revolted, and in a genuine outpouring of love and support, refused to follow Shinwell's orders and begged Attlee to reverse the decision. He didn't; the strike was broken by the Labour regime, and the grounds were irreparably destroyed to mine valueless, dirty coal. So too was the house, which had its foundation destroyed by the open-cast mining, which went right up to the doorstep.
Now it can't be lived in, and the Fitzwilliams had to give it up. The government of course refused to pay for the damage it did, or to take responsibility for the reprehensible actions of its minions
And what was gained by all that destruction? Nothing.
The coal mined from the Fitzwilliam parkland was essentially valueless, the stolen mines were largely shut down by the Thatcher years, and all the capital that could have funded Britain's post-war rebuilding was instead stolen and wasted on the welfare nanny state
Priceless English heritage was destroyed, and noblesse oblige not just ignored but punished, all for nothing at all
Such is what they now want to do to Elon
He created a company doing things thought impossible until just years ago...because he did them. He became very wealthy as a result. He also minted thousands of millionaires in the process, including blue collar guys who stuck by the project for years and accumulated equity as they did so
Now spiteful mutants like Liz Warren want to follow in the footsteps of Manny Shinwell and expropriate his property to punish him for succeeding
This is true - Democrats = Inertia.
L'Europe est un poulet sans tête.
Le corps, c'est le projet globaliste. Le projet davosien qui a culminé pendant le Covid. Le projet woke : contrôler, réglementer, interdire.
Chiant à mourir, et fier de l'être.
La tête, c'était le Parti démocrate américain. Le cerveau, le financement, la doctrine, la légitimité morale tout partait de là.
La tête a été tranchée à la dernière élection de Trump.
Et c'est là que ça devient fascinant : le corps continue de courir.
Parce qu'un système ne meurt pas quand on lui coupe la tête. Il meurt quand ses réflexes s'arrêtent. Et les réflexes, eux, mettent du temps. Le poulet court encore. Il gigote. Il pond des lois. Il veut interdire les réseaux sociaux aux moins de 16 ans « pour protéger les enfants ». Il a toujours l'agenda mais plus aucune direction.
L'agenda est toujours là. Mais plus rien ne prend.
Ils ont les peuples contre eux. Ils ont la réalité contre eux l'insécurité, les grooming gangs qu'on a couverts par peur de passer pour racistes, l'économie qui décroche, la justice qui se liquéfie. Ils ont tout contre eux.
Et pourtant ils continuent de nous vendre exactement la même soupe.
Ça, ce n'est pas de la stratégie. C'est de l'inertie pure. C'est le bruit d'un monde qui s'effondre au ralenti et qui confond ses spasmes avec de la vie.
Voilà à quoi ressemble la fin d'un monde. Pas une explosion. Un poulet décapité qui court encore quelques mètres avant de réaliser qu'il est déjà mort.
Pendant ce temps, l'autre monde a déjà commencé.
Elon Musk l'incarne.
Pas par ses idées par les faits. Le marché a voté. Avec son argent, avec ses ingénieurs, avec son talent, avec son attention. Et le marché ne se trompe jamais longtemps.
C'est ça, le vrai verdict. Pas une élection. Un flux de capital, de cerveaux et d'énergie qui quitte un modèle pour un autre.
Il est temps que les peuples retrouvent leur souveraineté.
C'était de bonne guerre.
Vous avez joué votre partie.
Vous l'avez perdue.
Vous pouvez continuer à lutter. Mais vous luttez contre l'arithmétique, contre le réel, contre le sens de l'histoire.
Et ça, personne ne l'a jamais gagné.
When Tocqueville came to America in 1831, just shy of 200 years ago, what he observed astonished him. His expectations, much like the expectations of the elites in Europe and our own country today, began with our “remarkable tendency to organize themselves in pursuit of shared goals.”
“Americans of all ages constantly unite,” Tocqueville wrote in his book Democracy in America. “Not only do they have commercial and industrial associations, in which all take part, but they also have a thousand other kinds: religious, moral, grave, futile, very general and very particular, immense and very small.”
When Tocqueville visited the U.S., we were in an era of rapid change, not unlike today. Some were moving westward, others toward cities, others away from cities, all while building transportation systems, such as canals and roadways, to achieve that moment.
The Industrial Revolution was at the center of all that cultural and political change. Our postal system was also speeding up. Our political parties were raucous, populist, and changing with the times. And we were influenced by those changed by how we formed communities.
Sound familiar? We are also in a moment of rapid change, building high-tech superhighways, this time through artificial intelligence and the internet. We are also moving inward this time, some rediscovering the middle of our country, while others try to remake our cities.
And the technological revolution of AI is having as much of a cultural and political impact as the industrial revolution.
What @FreddyLA7 @shaunvlog_ and all of the other World Cup soccer fans are experiencing is a modern-day Tocqueville moment. Freddy and Shaun likely had no idea what to expect when arriving here. If they read the European press or the Atlantic, it was probably pretty dark. Tocqueville himself wrote that he expected to find a raw, chaotic society, which is pretty much a condensed version of the criticisms you read about America and Americans from elite news organizations today.
What Tocqueville found instead were Americans who were constantly developing ways, and or tools, for creating associations, both large and small — associations with wildly different interests, from small local sports and community or religious groups with little internal order to vast national networks with structures. Think the Rotary Club, NAACP, the Elks, Lions Clubs, Future Farmers of America, the Grange, and 4-H.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN ON THE DEAD END OF PROTESTANTISM
I read this letter in the years leading up to my conversion. As I discovered, not only was Tolkien right about the mistaken search for “primitive” purity in the Church (read Scripture—it never existed), but the primitive church—to the extent we have artifacts of it in documents, archaeology, etc.—was very Catholic in its beliefs and practices. What I had been told my whole life were “medieval accretions” were widespread in the ancient Church, and defended from both Scripture, and the constant practice of the Church since the Apostolic age. The protestant claim to have restored the ancient Faith was, I discovered, completely false.
To this day, I have not yet found anything uniquely protestant in the ancient Catholic Church, except (I am sad to say) the heresies. All of them—no matter how different their doctrines from one another (and virtually none of them resembled protestantism)—ultimately relied on a novel/erroneous interpretation of Scripture (including subtracting or adding to its canon), coupled with a rejection of the authority of the Church. In this, each of them resembled protestantism. It was very sobering to realize that the Church Fathers’ descriptions of how heresy and heretics operated was disturbingly similar to how my native protestantism had operated since the 16th century.
TOLKIEN’S LETTER
The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness—which, of course, though it contains some good or at least intelligible motives, is mistaken and indeed vain. Because 'primitive Christianity' is now and in spite of all 'research' will ever remain largely unknown; because 'primitiveness' is no guarantee of value, and is, and was in great a reflection of ignorance. Grave abuses were as much an element in Christian liturgical behavior from the beginning as now. (St Paul's strictures on Eucharistic behavior are sufficient to show this!)
Still more because 'my church' was not intended by Our Lord to be static or remain in perpetual childhood; but to be a living organism (likened to a plant), which develops and changes in externals by the interaction of its bequeathed divine life and history—the particular circumstances of the world into which it is set.
There is no resemblance between the 'mustard-seed' and the full-grown tree. For those living in the days of its branching growth, the Tree is the thing, for the history of a living thing is part of its life, and the history of a divine thing is sacred.
The wise may know that it began with a seed, but it is vain to try and dig it up, for it no longer exists, and the virtue and powers that it had now reside in the Tree…But they will certainly do harm if they are obsessed with the desire of going back to the seed or even to the first youth when it was (as they imagine) pretty and unafflicted by evils.
J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter to his son Michael (August 25, 1967)
Michigan clerk admits on video that she DELETED election records and logs, eliminating the audit trail, at the direction of the Secretary of State, from the Michigan 2020 election.
This included a total of over 600,000+ ballots in question with their audit trails now destroyed, with no way to authenticate the ballots.
Election records by law must be retained for 22 months. The 2020 election was stolen and they were directed by our own members of government to cover it up.
THE ELITES WON'T TELL YOU THIS—but the science is clear.
The University of Nebraska just proved raising MORE COWS & eating MORE BEEF saves the planet.
Cows are carbon negative—they produce more oxygen than the methane & carbon they emit.
It was 5:41 AM when Mani noticed that the dog still hadn't moved from there.
I have been at this gas station for 11 years, and every day has the same routine; nothing changes.
But that dog sits under pump number 3 every morning.
He neither asks for food nor makes any noise; he just sits and looks towards the road.
On the 7th day, it was snowing, so I went over to him and offered food, but he didn't eat it. Then he got up and started walking slowly away, stopping to look at me as if to say, "come with me."
I followed him, and he led me behind my station, where I saw that a car had crashed.
There was a man inside who was very weak.
When the dog approached him, it seemed clear that he was looking for people to help him every day.
I found out the dog's name was Max. An ambulance and a police officer arrived, and they took the man away. The officer told me that it would take 2-3 miles to bring help.
This was not just loyalty; it was true love.
For the past eight months, O'Keefe Media has infiltrated ANTIFA networks in New Jersey, gathering internal communications and evidence.
Tomorrow at 1PM EST, you will meet the individuals behind the Delaney Hall unrest in New Jersey and other coordinated blockade actions.
We are not just in LA or DC. OMG is everywhere.
SHOCKING 😱 — A British man put on a full burqa and walked past police officers to demonstrate a loophole in facial recognition and stop-and-search enforcement. He revealed anyone wearing a burqa in the UK gets the “Infinite Freedom Glitch.”
Just fact checked this 🚨
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Obama owes Contractors like Mike Owen millions, and he's not paying any of them
The liberal media's ignoring this, so you folks know exactly what to do
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