“Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace, and you can have it in the next second, surrender.
Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us is that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face, that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender.
If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand, the ultimatum, and what then? When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people, he knows what our answer will be.
He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and some day, when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time, we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically.
He believes this because from our side, he's heard voices pleading for peace at any price, or better read than death, or as one commentator would it, he'd rather live on his knees than die on his feet, and therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.
You and I know, and do not believe, that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.
If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin? Just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused to cross? Should the patriots that Concord bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard around the world?
The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored death that gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis, didn't die in vain.
Where then is the road to peace? Oh, it's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, there is a price we will not pay, there is a point beyond which they must not advance.
Winston Churchill said, the destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we��re spirits, not animals. He said, there's something going on in time and space and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of men on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.“
-Ronald Reagan
Daycare calls me. That's never good.
For them.
Daycare: "your son hurt his elbow and won't move his arm. Can you come take him to a doctor's office?"
Me (ex Special Forces Medic): "A real doctor is on the way to you now. I am 6 mikes out. Alert me of status changes."
I arrive at daycare. I locate the patient. 21 month old male. Scene is not safe. I drag the patient to cover and concealment behind a seesaw, away from the other small terrorists in the AO.
I begin my assessment. Blood sweep negative for massive hemorrhage. Mental status: conscious and verbal but confused (answers "dada" when asked for blood type). One breath every 2 seconds. Bilateral rise and fall of the chest. Strong carotid pulse, strong bilat radial pulse.
Teeth and tongue intact no blood no mucus no dip or foreign objects. Eyes PERRLA, negative JVD/trach deviation, C-spine intact upon palpation.
Heart sounds strong upon auscultation. Percussion negative for hemo-T. Abdominal quads normal upon palpation. Pelvis negative for book sign.
Arms and legs negative for crepitus. However, Patient indicates discomfort in right arm upon palpation and supination/flexion of the elbow.
Nursemaid's elbow.
I begin interventions. Supination/flexion technique complete at 1215. Palpable clunk on successful reduction. I write the time on his chest in Sharpie. I tape a popsicle to his hand and tell the patient to suck but do not bite/chew. I write "1 x popsicle (10g sugar)" on his chest in Sharpie.
I reassess the patient after performing interventions then package the patient for handoff to daycare/higher level of care. I yell at daycare over the Blackhawk in my head: "21 month old male!!! Nursemaids elbow!!! Treated with supination/flexion technique at 1215!!! Patient has 1 x popsicle onboard!!"
Daycare: "sir please leave."
Me: "you should have called my wife."
IRANIAN EVANGELISM: Iranian American Christians are protesting the Islamic Republic of Iran while handing out bibles to Muslims. So many dynamics going on outside the World Cup stadium in Seattle.
@TPUSA|@choeshow
The Republican establishment has grown so fucking arrogant they no longer even pretend to hide their contempt for the people who elected them.
They smile for the cameras, take the votes, cash the checks, and then turn around and treat the base like peasants at the gate…unwelcome, inconvenient, and easily dismissed by whatever minor functionary they’ve empowered to do their dirty work.
Scott Presler just caught it on video.
A Thune crony…or at least a creature of that entire insulated ecosystem…looked one of this movement’s most relentless, effective organizers in the eye and snarled the quiet part out loud for the world to hear:
“Get the hell outta here.” “I’m the asshole saying you can’t come in.”
Let that land.
Let it burn straight through whatever polite fiction you were still clinging to.
This is not a staffer having a bad day.
This is not an isolated lapse in “optics.”
This is the unfiltered id of a political class that has spent years insulating itself from the very voters who dragged it out of irrelevance and handed it power.
The same class that turns the Senate into a procedural graveyard for anything the base actually demands.
The same class that lets consultants and lobbyists and lifetime functionaries treat the people who win their elections like problems to be managed rather than partners to be respected.
The contempt is not accidental.
It is structural.
It is the psychological defense mechanism of elites who sense…correctly…that the base is no longer content to be placated with rhetoric while the actual agenda of sovereignty, borders, and accountability dies in committee.
What you are about to read is not another polite autopsy of RINO behavior.
It is a forensic examination of that contempt in its natural habitat…its origins in elite capture, its transmission downward through staff and donors and event gatekeepers, its inevitable collision with a base that has finally stopped asking permission to be angry.
It names the pathology without euphemism. It traces the fracture in the social contract between Republican officeholders and the people who actually deliver their victories.
And it leaves the reader with the only question that still matters: when the door is slammed in your face by the very people you put in power, what the fuck are you prepared to do about it?
If you are still telling yourself that “our guys” are different, that the Senate is a fortress for the base rather than against it, that basic respect is too much to expect from the machine you keep feeding with your labor and your loyalty…this piece will finish the job of disabusing you.
If you already feel the rage in your bones, it will give you the precise language to weaponize it.
The mask is off.
The contempt is on record.
The only remaining variable is whether we keep accepting the role of peasants at the gate…or whether we burn the fucking gate down.
https://t.co/J5Hr7Sr853
@infantrydort There was countless missions I thought were total bullshit and increased risk, but still did them. As an NCO we would discuss our concerns face to face with our LT. Realized he had no decision authority, people way higher were controlling our planning
1.7 MILLION BALLOT IMAGES DESTROYED in the GEORGIA 2020 Election.
DOMINION 2020 Stolen Election Report details significant findings drawn from court admissions, forensic reports, sworn affidavits, federal EAVS data, and a state-commissioned Office of Special Counsel.
1.) Fulton County, GA, the county admitted in federal court that the majority of in-person ballot images from the 2020 machine count were not preserved.
Statewide, roughly 1.7 million ballot images were destroyed and 132,286 of 148,318 absentee-ballot cryptographic authentication files were deleted, erasing the ability to prove that any surviving image is unaltered.
2.) Fulton County, GA, 17,852 recount votes have no corresponding ballot image; 20,713 ballots came from tabulators with no provenance; 3,930 ballots were scanned and counted more than once.
Georgia's certified presidential margin was 12,670 votes. Dr. Philip Stark of UC Berkeley, the inventor of risk-limiting audits, concluded on the record that Georgia’s results cannot be validated.
3.) Maricopa County, AZ, 263,139 ballot images were corrupt and 21,273 were missing; up to ten non-compliant paper stocks drove an 11.2% adjudication rate, roughly ten times the 2016 baseline.
Box manifests delivered to auditors did not match the ballots inside, with duplicates commingled with originals and a documented case of UOCAVA ballots counted more than once.
4.) Detroit, MI, tens of thousands of ballots arrived at the TCF Center at roughly 3:30 AM with no chain-of-custody documentation.
A Speckin Forensics sample found up to 20% of absentee ballots lacked the legally required application, the document that authorizes issuance and ties a ballot to a specific registered voter.
5.) Delaware County, PA, sworn testimony that named officials physically tore machine tapes and return sheets into pieces and placed them in the trash.
One official reportedly saying the data had "no audit value" because it "wouldn't match the election results."
6.) Pennsylvania statewide, 440,781 mail ballots are classified in federal EAVS data as "status unknown."
The state has no record of whether they were delivered, returned, counted, rejected, or disposed of. The certified margin was 81,660 votes. The unaccounted-for volume exceeds the margin by more than 5:1.
7.) Milwaukee, WI, a USB drive holding absentee voter data for more than 120,000 votes briefly lost chain of custody on election night.
This happened during the same window as an unexplained 143,379-vote batch upload reported at 3:26 AM. The drive's write metadata has not been forensically examined.
8.) In Wisconsin, a Dominion reseller is alleged to have retained physical Wisconsin ballots at a facility in Minnesota without governmental authorization.
They also refused to comply with Office of Special Counsel subpoenas. In Green Bay, a private non-government actor controlled the tabulators, the ballots, and a hidden Wi-Fi access point at the central count facility.
9.) Fulton County, GA, 35 tabulator memory cards were swapped mid-election with no chain-of-custody documentation, and closing tapes were printed on surrogate machines rather than the actual scanners.
Dominion Voting Systems personnel, not government officials, were in operational control of voting systems in nearly every Georgia county during the election period.
10.) Industry-wide design feature, scanners use a documented "color dropout" function that deletes red-ink markings such as "TEST" or "VOID" from the digital ballot image.
In the 2021 New York City mayoral primary, 135,000 test ballots were accidentally included in preliminary results, demonstrating that a test ballot and a cast ballot become indistinguishable in the digital record of record.
The standard reassurance after any contested election is some version of "the paper is the ground truth, just look at the ballots." The record on Ballot Integrity across Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin describes what happens when someone actually tries.
In Maricopa, 263,139 ballot images were corrupt and 21,273 were missing, paper stock did not match the certified specification, and box manifests delivered to auditors did not match the ballots inside.
In Fulton County, Georgia, the county itself admitted in federal court that the majority of in-person ballot images from the 2020 machine count were not preserved, statewide, roughly 1.7 million ballot images were destroyed along with the cryptographic hashes that would have let anyone prove the survivors were unaltered.
In Detroit, tens of thousands of ballots arrived at the counting center at 3:30 AM with no chain of custody, and a fifth of sampled absentee ballots lacked the legally required application.
In Delaware County, Pennsylvania, an eyewitness testified that a named official tore machine tapes and return sheets into pieces and threw them in the trash; statewide, 440,781 Pennsylvania mail ballots are carried on federal EAVS data as "status unknown," more than five times the certified margin.
In Wisconsin, a USB drive holding more than 120,000 absentee votes briefly went missing during active counting, ballots are alleged to be retained by a private vendor across state lines, and in Green Bay a non-government actor controlled the tabulators through a hidden Wi-Fi access point at the central count facility.
Taken together, the record describes a ballot corpus that, in the places that decided the election, cannot be independently verified, because the paper was commingled, the images were destroyed, the hashes were deleted, the custody was broken, and in several jurisdictions the people with physical control of the ballots were not government officials.
What the record shows is not a dispute about specific votes; it is a dispute about whether the votes can be looked at. A ballot without an application has no legal origin.
A ballot image without its hash cannot be authenticated. A recount vote with no corresponding image has no paper behind it. A batch of ballots from a tabulator with no provenance cannot be traced to any polling place.
A USB drive that briefly went missing on election night cannot be excluded as a write event without metadata forensics that have not been performed. A mail ballot classified "status unknown" in federal survey data is neither counted nor rejected, it is simply gone.
Ballots in the custody of a private vendor across a state line or controlled by a non-government actor through a hidden Wi-Fi access point, have passed out of the chain of lawful custody entirely.
Across the five states that decided one election, these facts describe a ballot corpus that has been rendered unverifiable, and a verification mantra that stops working the moment the paper, the images, the hashes, and the custody records are simultaneously gone.
🚨 THREAD: What do Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Elaine Chao have in common? They were all paid by a Marxist-Islamist Iran group that was designated as terrorist until 2012.
No, this is not a joke.
Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) was founded by leftist Islamists to oppose the western-backed Pahlavi, and participated in his 1979 overthrow. Khomeini barred MEK afterwards. MEK was implicated in multiple bombings, including that of Americans, and remained an openly armed group until 2003.
Since they got de-listed as a terrorist organization in 2012 on procedural grounds, MEK and their fronts have been actively recruiting US politicians selling themselves as a moderate alternative to Khomeini. But RAND Corporation says MEK meets the qualifications for a cult, citing criteria such as forcing their members to work 16+ hour days and forced divorces.
Polls of the Iranian-American community shows that they do NOT accept Rajavi, MeK's leader, as legitimate, with a 46-point net disapproval - numbers nearly as bad as the existing regime.
As Pence's former Chief of Staff, Marc Short, has already weighed against Trump deal, it's helpful to recall this.
Receipts below. As always, patience as I pull the thread together.👇
🚨🚨 Here it is:
A Venezuelan military intelligence whistleblower CONFIRMS that the Central Intelligence Agency outsources its election‑rigging software and voting machines (Smartmatic) overseas to overthrow governments abroad, including here in the United States.
Sheriff Dar Leaf:
“The emails that we’re finding—and this is what led us to the letters—it’s not just one letter. There are several letters to Jim Jordan. What we were finding is that Dominion executives were working with foreign countries on our elections and foreign software.”
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Sheriff Dar Leaf:
“My office has come into possession of evidence that foreign nationals have accessed electronic voting machines in Michigan and other states. This evidence demonstrates that electronic voting machines and electronic election systems used for elections in Michigan and throughout the United States are not secure and an immediate investigation is needed by Congress.”
“Dominion Serbian nationals had access to U.S. voting systems and manipulated votes from Trump to Biden.”
“I am investigating the role that some individuals inside the United States”
(MI Governor Gretchen Whitmer,
MI Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, and
MI Attorney General Dana Nessel)
“have played in conspiring with foreign nationals, and who have even directed and instructed them to access and interfere with electronic voting machines and electronic voting systems during past elections, including the overthrow of the U.S. government on November 3, 2020 election.”
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May 6, 2024
Sheriff Dar Leaf "Dominion CEO John Poulos directed staff to conceal that Dominion has Serbian and Chinese employees operating out of its Canadian office and that these employees are directly involved the US elections, not only with programming, but with real-time, administrative remote access. Not only was access granted to US election equipment in real-time during the election, but detected by [the] US government through Albert Sensors was subverted by use of "soft phones".
In Defiance of Communism
A people can inherit freedom for only so long before it becomes a story instead of a possession.
For nearly 250 years, Americans have lived inside a liberty other men bled into existence. We quote them, praise them, build monuments to them, and then act surprised when the same old evil returns with cleaner language and better branding.
Communism is not new. It is envy dressed as justice, slavery dressed as compassion, and theft dressed as moral progress. Every time it rises, it promises to liberate mankind from suffering, then immediately begins building cages for anyone who refuses to kneel.
The Founders fought with chains still warm around their wrists. We were born so far from the struggle that many mistake liberty for the natural order of the world.
That is why communists always target memory first. They have to make you hate your fathers, mock your inheritance, despise your country, and doubt the civilization that made you free. A people ashamed of its own story will surrender before the first chain is locked around its wrist.
There comes a point when liberty must stop being admired and start being defended. Not as nostalgia or as some dead thing under glass, but as a living fire passed from one generation to the next by people who understand what waits in the dark if it goes out.
You can admire liberty from a distance for only so long. Eventually a free people must remember the taste.
And when communists try to take what we love, the only answer worthy of our fathers is defiance.
And another thing.
Most civilians do not understand just how much influence retired senior generals and admirals have on serving generals and admirals (generals and admirals = general officers/flag officers = "GOFO").
It's that control that this "greybeard" GOFO cohort exerts on the current GOFO population that is deeply concerning.
The serving GOFOs follow the direction of that greybeard group, as the greybeards control the serving GOFO's future both in uniform and out. (How else do you think a retiring GOFO gets that cushy position on the Raytheon board of directors?)
In that regard, the greybeards hold more power than the chain of command up to SecWar.
At least they used to.
Now the greybeards are getting loud as that control for the first time is seriously threatened as these Hegseth removals are happening outside of their control, despite their behind the scenes work to keep the military version of the Deep State afloat.
We live in interesting times.
The Republican Senate just performed its own public execution in a hotel ballroom in Rapid City and then had the audacity to act surprised when the body twitched.
They did not simply deny Scott Presler entry to their little donor dinner at the South Dakota state convention.
They revealed the clinical truth of what they have become: a cartel of status-anxious narcissists so pathologically terrified of autonomous effectiveness on their own side that they will slam the door on the single most productive grassroots operative this movement has fielded in a generation rather than risk him demanding they actually do the job they were sent to Washington to perform.
This was not an administrative fuck-up.
This was a calculated act of social dominance…a textbook display of malignant group pathology in which the only acceptable response to loyalty that becomes demanding is erasure and humiliation.
The message they broadcast was not subtle.
It was neurological.
It was delivered straight into the attachment systems of every volunteer, every small-dollar donor, every door-knocker who still believed the Republican Party existed to fight rather than to manage.
Shut the fuck up.
Know your place.
We do not work for you.
We work for the donor calendar, the cocktail circuit, the administrative-state equilibrium that keeps our sinecures intact.
Your effort, your results, your inconvenient insistence on proof-of-citizenship and borders that actually function are now classified as threats to our comfort.
The base is no longer an asset to be mobilized. It is a liability to be contained.
This is betrayal trauma made visible and it carries a clinical cost these cowards have not begun to calculate.
Trust does not erode under these conditions.
It calcifies into something colder, more precise, more lethal.
The high-agency citizens who built the turnout machines are not becoming more moderate.
They are becoming more diagnostic. They are running new simulations in which the men in bespoke suits are no longer allies who occasionally disappoint.
They are obstacles that must be removed or bypassed if anything resembling the republic is to survive.
History has already written the next chapter for men who mistake their insulation for invulnerability.
The Roman optimates told the populares to sit down and accept their station.
The French aristocracy responded to the cahiers de doléances with procedural contempt and donor-class disdain.
The British Tories spent a generation triangulating while assuring their base that the institutions still functioned.
Every single time the result was the same: the base did not become more compliant.
It became more accurate in its assessment of who actually serves whom.
The Senate Republicans who participated in or permitted this public degradation of Scott Presler have just accelerated that process by years.
They have handed the base fresh data and fresh rage wired directly into the nervous system.
They will not sleep cleanly again.
Every future closed-door meeting, every donor dinner, every primary challenge will carry the ghost of that slammed door in Rapid City.
The calculation has changed.
The men who thought they could silence the most effective soldier on their own side without consequence have just taught the entire base a lesson in institutional betrayal that no amount of campaign rhetoric can unteach.
The full forensic dissection of this pathology…the neurological rewiring, the historical pattern, the terminal arrogance of a leadership class that fears its own base more than it fears the enemy…is now live.
Read it. Let it cut.
The reckoning they triggered is no longer theoretical.
It is already counting.
https://t.co/29G5RjeCzq
Newly released police bodycam footage from just after the murder of Henry Nowak.
Digwa: “But I’ve been racially attacked.”
The officer: “I know, mate, I know,” and adds: “I’m not saying you’ve done anything, mate.”
Digwa moans about being tired and police lights hurting his eyes.
He was never handcuffed, Nowak was as he died.
Read this article. DEI has only one purpose, and it has nothing to do with social justice or equity.
Every person carries a moral frame that precedes any training module: conscience, faith, community. Romans 2:15: the law written on the heart. DEI exists to displace it.
The endpoint is moral authority reassignment. Away from God, family, country, conscience. Toward the NGO-Administrative Complex. That's what the training was always for: consultation transfer.
The military was a top target because it had to be.
@DaleStarkA10 LTC Hogdon, we called him Hot Dog Don. Made me and our LT stand at attention because we said we were going out to go aid a convoy blown up less than a kick from us. He refused to go outside the wire. It's bitches like him. Never letting that go
Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada is not American. And he wasn’t convicted and sentenced for moving Antifa zines.
It was proven at his trial that he conspired with and helped one of the terror suspects conceal evidence that showed she and her co-defendants from the night of the shooting were motivated by violent Antifa insurrection ideology.
I think you would stand to benefit from learning more about the evidence and Antifa rather than running cover for them continually. https://t.co/7KvehraOcs