middle man

Christ helps a meek man.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

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[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

The Carroll case rested on a sequence of legal maneuvers with no precedent in American civil litigation. Democratic legislators passed a retroactive temporary law eliminating the statute of limitations for decades-old accusations that could not be dated, located, or defended with alibis. The day the temporary law took effect, Carroll filed her pre-prepared lawsuit, the first in the state to do so.

A Democratic mega-donor secretly funded the plaintiff’s legal costs through a nonprofit. The arrangement stayed hidden until one of Trump’s lawyers discovered it. A Clinton-appointed judge then sealed all records so the jury never learned the billionaire backer had publicly committed to Trump’s political destruction. Every participant in the legislative, funding, and judicial steps operated inside the same political network, and each decision produced the same cumulative result.

The jury explicitly checked “no” on the verdict form’s specific rape question. The judge ruled rape proven anyway, claiming the jury had used a common rather than statutory definition… an impossibility, since their rejection under the common definition precludes rape by any standard. Trump’s team was barred from arguing innocence before a second jury, which awarded $83.3 million ($65 million punitive) on the rape finding the first jury had rejected.

A defendant was sued for defamation over denying an accusation, prevented from asserting that denial as a defense, tried before a judge who concealed the plaintiff’s political funding, and hit with a nine-figure verdict built on facts the jury itself refused to find.

No comparable sequence exists in recorded U.S. civil litigation history.

[Art @ZarkFiles]

The E. Jean Carroll case against President Trump is one of the strangest civil cases in American history. The foundational problem is this: Carroll could not identify when the alleged incident occurred — not even the year with any precision.
That should have killed the case as dead as a skunk on the road right there.
Without a temporal anchor, no defendant — regardless of guilt or innocence — can mount an alibi defense. Trump, who has maintained detailed calendars and staff records for decades, was denied the most basic tool of self-defense: the ability to establish where he was. That is not a technicality. It is a due process violation at the constitutional level.
Then Carroll produced the one piece of physical evidence she claimed corroborated her account — the dress she wore during the alleged incident. It was subsequently established that the dress was designed after the incident could have occurred. The sole corroborating evidence falsified her timeline.
The case proceeded anyway.
The resulting verdict was then weaponized in a defamation suit — where Trump was held liable for denying the allegation, while being procedurally barred from defending against it, because it was already "proven" in another court, regardless how flawed the procedure was. He was punished, in effect, for asserting his own innocence.
Compounding everything: coordinated professional and physical threats so thoroughly intimidated the legal community that attorneys refused these cases regardless of available fees. When you systematically destroy a defendant's ability to retain counsel of choice, you forfeit the right to a legitimate verdict.
An allegation is not evidence. Process without substance is not law. And a verdict produced under these conditions carries no legitimate authority — whatever its formal status.

Not only is it the right move to investigate Carroll, but every other person involved as well. Trump is owed serious damages here, and there may be a few people who belong in prison for their roles in the case.

[Shakes, A Large And Particular Man @TheFatAmerican]

I want to comment on John Cornyn losing his primary because I go to DC parties where I meet establishment guys and I know how they think.

Senate Republicans think they are the reason Republicans won in 2024. They think they’re the GOP’s secret sauce.

You think the GOP rode Trump’s coattails. They think Trump road their coattails.

In this world, Republicans won because Democrats went too far. Woke was too crazy. Republicans were moderate and sensible. Now, they have to keep the party that way or Republicans will make the same mistake the Democrats made.

They think in very outdated terms. Republicans will lose in 2026 because the incumbent party always loses. This is a political “rule”. They are 100% certain Republicans will lose. Therefore, anything Trump does to try to win the midterms is actually cope. You’re talking crazy. Crazy is bad.

SAVE? Deportations? That’s crazy. Crazy is bad.

“But if you redistrict and pass voter ID Republicans will win!”

Senate Republicans are not thinking like that. They’re thinking you’re nuts.

Passing bills, making law? They think that whatever mandate they had was squandered by Trump over controversies like Minneapolis and posting too many memes on Twitter. The GOP looks too crazy now. Well try again next time.

They’re actually doing us a favor. By doing nothing they’re protecting us from our own excesses. They’re helping us not look crazy. We had better thank them.

When you think of MAGA, you think of Donald Trump and reindustrialization and deporting illegal immigrants.

When they think of MAGA, they think of Marjorie Taylor Greene. They think of Roy Moore losing Alabama in 2018. They think of “grab them by the pussy”. They think of “they’re eating the dogs”. They think of Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz and Alex Jones. They think of crazy people doing stupid things.

So, in every election since 2016, and maybe even before that, it’s Establishment Republicans who have saved the ticket from the worst excesses of Donald Trump and the Republican base.

That is what Senate Republicans mean when they say they want to “govern”. They want to pass budgets and workshop foreign policy.

That is why they still won’t implement Trump’s agenda. They think it is deeply unpopular, or will become unpopular even if it temporarily polls well. They think Trump only won because they saved his bacon.

So, John Cornyn.

John Cornyn lost because the base is deeply unhappy with Senate Republican leadership. Republican voters would probably replace a majority of Senate Republicans if you simply took a straw poll.

Senate Republicans know this, but think that Republicans voters almost always “come to their senses” because we all know Republicans can’t afford to be crazy. Democrats lose when they’re crazy. Republicans will lose the same way.

Sometimes the base has to be coerced or told what to do. That’s why they have to spend $100M propping up Cornyn.

Cornyn’s loss is shocking to them because it doesn’t make sense:

* Trump has “no reason” for endorsing Paxton over Cornyn. It’s crazy for Trump to do this. Senate Republicans save Trump again and again and this is how he repays them.

* The voters are out of control. The base is “supposed to” vote for Republicans anyways, so they should know we have to support moderates who can win. The fact that the voters don’t know this is more proof that Senate Republicans are the smartest people in the room.

[middle man @secondof3]

@JackPosobiec I was on that rope line at the wagon and shook Ford’s hand at Valley Forge. ‘76 was definitely a different vibe.

[Cleta Mitchell @CletaMitchell]

@catmomma83 Chip Roy. Hands down. He will be such a strong force for America as Texas AG. He is the best. By far. Not even close. @chiproytx

[Labrador Skeptic @SaysSimulation]

"I think it is good to at gunpoint take from the people who work hard to provide my food, housing, energy & everything else to redistribute to others so I can feel good about myself."

The state uses its monopoly on violence to take from those who build this society to give
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[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Reposting this because for all the effort it takes to write a good article, its shelf life on the timeline is less than 24 hours.

If X wants articles as a standard, it needs to figure out how to feature them.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

@marceelias You are fighting for voting apartheid.

You want black voters in legislative ghettos so the other districts in a state can ignore their concerns.

You are a proponent of some of the most racist voting policies imaginable.

Why are you such a staunch supporter of racism?

[Sara Gonzales @SaraGonzalesTX]

The organizer of the Muslim-only waterpark event agreed to do an interview with me.

After it ended, she sent us a homemade cease-and-desist letter.

She did not want this to go to air. You’ll understand why when you watch. 👇🏼

[middle man @secondof3]

@ClownWorld Looks like Obama’s library.

[middle man @secondof3]

@YaBoyCoots I was watching from a hot tub in Cancun until the wee hours of the morning. Good times.

[middle man @secondof3]

@irv5k @JackPosobiec Don’t forget LaSalle and St. Joe’s.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

President Trump didn’t tweet. He launched a kinetic strike from orbit.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz...freshly installed steward of a hollow Reich...had the gall to whine that America was “humiliated” by Iran.

Trump’s reply was surgical, lethal, and dripping with the contempt these continentals have earned for seventy years:

“The Chancellor of Germany should spend more time on ending the war with Russia/Ukraine (Where he has been totally ineffective!), and fixing his broken Country, especially Immigration and Energy, and less time on interfering with those that are getting rid of the Iran Nuclear threat, thereby making the World, including Germany, a safer place!”

Boom. The mask slipped.

The vassal state that can’t keep the lights on, can’t seal its borders from the Third World tide, and can’t even pretend to deter Putin suddenly lectures the only adult in the room about “humiliation.”

Fuck you, Merz. Fuck the entire post-1945 European pathology that produced you.

Let’s speak the truth these salons will never stomach.
Psychology of the Cuckold Continent.

Europe isn’t just weak; it is pathologically dependent.
Post-WWII, we pumped the Marshall Plan into a continent that had gutted itself twice in thirty years.

We gave them the nuclear umbrella, the 70-plus percent of NATO’s actual combat power, the logistics backbone that lets their militaries play dress-up.

In return they cultivated a psychic complex:

moral superiority married to strategic impotence.
It’s battered-spouse syndrome in reverse...the wife (America) keeps handing over the paycheck while the degenerate husband (Europe) drinks, cheats, lectures, and resents the very hand that feeds him.

They hate us because we expose their castration.

Every American strike that actually neutralizes a threat...whether Soleimani, bin Laden, or now the Iranian nuclear program...reminds them they lack the will, the balls, and the arsenal to do it themselves.
Historical Betrayal on Steroids.

NATO was forged to stop Stalin’s hordes from rolling to the Channel.

Fine. Mission accomplished in 1991.

What followed was the greatest strategic grift in history:
Europe deliberately demilitarized, offshored its energy security to Putin’s pipelines, opened the gates to mass Islamic migration that now runs its no-go zones, and then had the nerve to call America “unilateralist” every time we lifted a finger.

Germany...yes, the same Germany that once fielded Wehrmacht panzers...now fields a Bundeswehr that can barely muster a brigade without American airlift, fuel, and ammo.

Their energy policy is a green suicide cult. Their immigration policy is national suicide by demography. And still they posture as the adults in the room.
Military and Geopolitical Reality Check.

The United States subsidizes European defense so Berlin and Paris can virtue-signal about climate accords and lecture us on “rules-based order” while Iranian proxies swarm the Red Sea and Russian artillery turns Ukrainian fields into moonscapes.

Trump just reminded the world:

when America moves against an existential nuclear threat, the planet...including the Euro-cucks...gets safer whether they like it or not.

Merz’s bleating is projection.

Germany is humiliated daily...by its own impotence, its own demographic replacement, its own energy poverty.

The only humiliation America suffers is the self-inflicted kind:

staying married to this welfare queen alliance.

We are the abused wife who keeps coming back with fresh bruises and a new credit card.

“But the kids!” they cry...meaning their precious European social model built on American blood and treasure.

Bullshit. The kids grew up spoiled, soft, and sneering. Time for the divorce.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF NATO.

Let the continent that invented total war face the wolves it invited.

Let Germany discover what actual security costs when the American ATM is closed and the 101st Airborne isn’t riding to the rescue. America First isn’t isolationism...it’s sanity.

We will keep the seas open, the nukes ready, and the homeland defended. But subsidizing effete ingrates who piss on our boots while demanding we bleed for their mistakes?

That era ends now.

Trump sees it.

The American people are waking to it.

Europe had seventy years of the free ride.
The bill is due.

Pay it yourselves...or watch the house burn while you lecture the firemen on their tone.

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[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

I have been asked for my opinion about Pam Bondi...so here it is...

Pam Bondi, in my opinion...was deployed as a precision instrument in a theater of institutional warfare where the Attorney General’s role is less about courtroom theatrics and more about reshaping the Department of Justice’s internal architecture from within a bureaucracy engineered to resist exactly that.

To mistake her fifteen-month tour for failure is to misunderstand the architecture of power itself.

Bondi entered the DOJ in February 2025 after Matt Gaetz’s nomination collapsed under its own weight.

She inherited an agency riddled with holdovers, careerist prosecutors, and institutional muscle memory tuned to the prior regime’s priorities.

Her mandate, executed with the cold ferocity of a Florida prosecutor who once stared down the Clintons and lived to tell it, was never to play the long public game of show trials.

It was to do the lethal, invisible labor:

purge disloyal elements, redirect investigative task forces, shutter the foreign-influence shops that had become political protection rackets, and...most critically...build the factual scaffolding of cases that could survive judicial scrutiny once the political headwinds shifted.

That is precisely what she delivered.

Under her watch the DOJ secured historic gang and cartel takedowns, first-ever Antifa terrorism convictions, and a string of Supreme Court victories that rewrote the operational rules of engagement.

Murder rates plunged to levels unseen in over a century.

Those are not the metrics of a lightweight.

They are the metrics of someone who understood that the real war is won in the grand-jury rooms and the classified briefings long before any defendant ever sees a courtroom.

The public theater...the Epstein files fiasco, the congressional grillings, the slow-bleed perception that “Trump’s enemies weren’t being prosecuted fast enough”...was the predictable noise generated by an entrenched apparatus that weaponizes leaks, redactions, and procedural sabotage the moment it senses its own exposure.

Bondi absorbed that fire so the next occupant of the office would inherit dockets already primed, evidence chains already hardened, and a bureaucracy already blooded and compliant.

She was the breaching charge.

The follow-on force...now under acting leadership that can move with fewer Senate constraints and fresher political capital...gets to deliver the kill shots.

This is not speculation; it is the pattern of every high-stakes Trump DOJ transition.

First-term chaos taught the lesson:

the Senate-confirmed loyalist who survives confirmation must serve as the institutional wrecking ball.

The public demands scalps; the law demands airtight cases. Bondi supplied the latter while the former were still being assembled.

Those who call her tenure “incompetent” reveal either their ignorance of how the executive branch actually functions or their desire to keep the machine broken so it can never be turned against its former masters.

She was never meant to be the permanent face of the Justice Department.

She was the architect who laid the rebar and poured the concrete under fire.

The structure now stands. The new tenants can furnish it with indictments.

That is not failure. That is lethal, disciplined statecraft.

And the critics who cannot see the difference have no business commenting on power at this altitude.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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[Dennis ✝️🎮🏀🏈 @RussNRoses]

As a Protestant - I talked with many people about what drives a lifelong Protestant like me to Catholicism.

So I wanted to show you all my most basic reasoning.

1. Tangibility: The sacraments, the literal implications of things like the Eucharist & the basic concept of the Christian life imputed on to us.

Both body & soul are important & require tangible nourishment. If it's just an idea - what's the value? The word became flesh. Is means is.

That's so important.

2. Unity: I would believe an omnipotent God would want his people, his chosen people unified.

God is not a contradiction - so neither can be his church.

Protestants say - that the Church is body of all believers - but how can God - this God of no failure be OK with theological contradiction, fights & 1000s of different interpretations.

That sounds insane to me - so I must believe there is one full truth out there & it just begs the question: What it is?...

3. Verifiability: Catholicism definitely by most rational standards has history & traditional teachings on their side....

Take out the fallible middlemen, where I say Eucharist is literal & you say not... Who can be right? If we tread it academically, historically by knowledge verification, all points show towards Catholicisms claims at least potentially true - how can you reform something you fan never show was there early to begin with, and the fact that all Protestant denominations are built on disagreeing founders one after another...

4. Contingency:

If you look and start even at the OT - everything from Genesis to Revelation - there was a contingent line of succession built, God chose many humans for their roles:

Abraham, Noah, Moses, David, Mary & Joseph & the Apostles...

They all were handpicked to build a line & do God's work on earth. Special privilege came with lots of responsibility handed out. Leadership & such was given to them.

It shows the Sainthood, that authority, and that it isn't the Reformed Protestant Version of:

Just God - no other mediators as they like to say.

No - time & time again - God's saints & chosen people where selected for the great deeds they did. That's community, sainthood, intercessory & all things Catholics believes verify this to me.

5. Founding

At a foundational level - the Catholic Church existed for 2000 years.. it's strong to this day. And yes - I did struggle with people in the Catholic Church doing bad things... but that is not different in Protestantism either...

But other than Protestantism - the Church survived bad people. The theology & tradition seem to be safeguarded by something...
I think this is what The Bible meant when it said: I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." (Matthew 16:19)

& „And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.“ (Matthew 16:18)

Now that's foundation, confirmation & at the core given authority....

I have never seen a Protestant being able to give a sufficient answer & apply it to them.

There's more. But this is what it comes down to, too.

(More reasons to come later or another day - these are long & hard to write by hand ❤️🙏)

[Veil Of Athena @VeilOfAthena]

@RepJeffries GFY

J6: Brought to you by the SPLC and Democrat leadership, courtesy of @SpeakerPelosi

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

No British government ever imagined an American president might finally tell the truth about the “special relationship.”

Until now.

Spare me the pearl-clutching obituary from The Economist, that decaying salon of transatlantic nostalgia where the ghost of Churchill is still being pimped out like a rent-boy for Davos subscriptions.

Your precious bunting of flags in the bin isn’t some tragic metaphor for Trump’s “betrayal.”

It’s the autopsy photo of a one-way parasitic bargain that America has carried on its back like a drunk uncle for eighty goddamn years.

And the drunk finally woke up, looked around, and said: Fuck this.

This isn’t “turning his back.”

This is a sovereign nation refusing to keep subsidizing a continent of strategic eunuchs who have spent decades castrating their own militaries, hollowing out their industrial bases, and importing the very pathologies that make them security liabilities rather than allies.

You want the special relationship?

Earn it. Reciprocate it. Stop treating the United States like an ATM with nuclear weapons.

Geopolitically and militarily, the numbers don’t lie and they never have.

The United States still shoulders roughly sixty percent of total NATO defense spending...$845 billion out of a collective $1.4 trillion last year.

Most of your European “partners” couldn’t hit the 2% GDP target even after Russia parked tanks on Ukraine’s border and started lobbing missiles at civilian infrastructure.

Britain under Starmer talks a big game about “global Britain” while quietly slashing capability, courting CCP-linked cash, and letting its own streets burn under the weight of demographic transformation and speech codes that make the old East German Stasi look libertarian.

You lecture us about values while your own government criminalizes tweets and turns Rotherham into a cautionary tale the media still refuses to fully autopsy.

Historically, the ledger is even more damning. We bled for you in 1917 and 1941 when your empires were on the ropes.

We bankrolled your reconstruction, anchored your defense for the entire Cold War, and let you punch above your weight on the world stage because sentimental Anglosphere nostalgia still meant something.

In return? Suez 1956, where you expected us to back imperial nostalgia while we were trying to contain Soviet expansion.

Vietnam, where you sat it out. Iraq, where you half-assed it and then spent the next twenty years sneering at us in your broadsheets. And every single time an American president dared put America First, your commentariat wailed like Victorian widows about the death of the alliance...as if the alliance was ever meant to be a suicide pact.

You’ve internalized a victimhood narrative so profound it borders on the clinical...projecting your own national decline, your own loss of agency, your own self-inflicted castration onto the one country that still possesses the will to act like a great power.

Trump doesn’t “deprioritize” the relationship; he simply refuses to indulge the delusion any longer.

He sees what you refuse to admit:

the United Kingdom of 2026 is no longer the reliable offshore balancer of 1945.

It’s a mid-tier European power wrestling with internal entropy, elite disconnect, and a demographic trajectory that makes long-term strategic partnership… let’s just say, complicated.

We are sick of it. Sick of the free ride. Sick of the lectures from people whose capitals are turning into no-go zones while their defense ministers beg Washington for more F-35s and more carrier groups to patrol waters they can no longer secure themselves.

Sick of the pomp, the pageantry, the royal visits, and the hand-wringing editorials that treat American self-interest as some kind of moral failing.

The special relationship isn’t dead. It’s being stress-tested by reality.

And reality, Mr. Economist, is a vicious bitch with a ledger in one hand and a mirror in the other.

Look into it.

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[Hotep Jesus @HotepJesus]

As it seems, the white liberal conjures enemies...when there are none. The dirty laundry of the SPLC exposes...they like to wash their money. The landscape is littered with black liberals...hung out to dry.

Mr. & Mrs. black liberal, how does it feel to know that your ally has his knife to your back? It seems, the white democrat has not drifted too far from its racist roots.

The white liberal controls you like a puppet. Geppetto's strings are threads of...racist folklore. All it takes is a finger wave to make you dance.

Sometimes I wonder if you're an...emotional masochist.

The white liberal cleverly designs the cage of liberalism, with links bound by trinkets of racism. Woven into the tapestry of their sinister scheme are bonds to your subconscious mind. Those bonds are tethered to the stories of slaves.

Through public miseducation and Hollywood tricknology Pavlov's bell becomes embedded in your unconscious. Lying dormant...waiting for someone to ring the bell. The bell chimes NIGGER, and you salivate...profusely.

Your ego gorges on social media engagement. You swim in a money bin of campaign donations. Church choirs echo your conceptions. You scream out "hallelujah!" when the white liberal whips your people.

You mourn the exposal of the SPLC. With its bad luck* comes...your demise. Because for you, racism is...incentivized. The tears of black people...water your garden. Our pain is your...joy. Our problems are your...solutions.

How long will the black vote be held hostage? As long as the white wizards's spell can last.