Steve Rich

[Stewart Mandel @slmandel]

For 17 years, it was “iron sharpens iron.”

Now that the tables have turned it’s “they’re gassed.”

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Listen to it all.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

“Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries now look like substitute teachers trying to take attendance during a prison riot.”

Spot on.

The communist cancer has taken over the Democrat Party machinery.

[Brit Hume @brithume]

But all the smart people say that Iran is "winning." https://t.co/5UgxwiiIDn

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Thread, and a damning one re: mainstream media.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Absolutely incredible.

[Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon]

The same organization compiling lists of conservatives who should be debanked and censored, that put Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA on a list alongside the KKK, was literally funding the KKK, secretly trying its hardest to grow the racist threat it was pretending was ubiquitous.

The demand for White Supremacy had so outstripped the supply that the SPLC was allegedly funding racist leaders, supervising racist posts, coordinating racist turnout.

My column:
https://t.co/acYg0tl2LJ

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We’re learning in real time why the censorship-industrial complex was so certain that so much of what they hated was inauthentic misinformation. So much of what they liked was inauthentic misinformation. Incredible.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

If the SPLC (!) was funding the hate groups they claimed to be fighting, what does this suggest re the rest of the censorship/debanking complex of the last decade?

[Sean Spicer @seanspicer]

100%

[Latter-day Truth @Latterdaytruth]

Insane!!! Temple Square essentially has an open house year-round now!

[Brit Hume @brithume]

A perfect distillation of TDS.

[Daniel Turner @DanielTurnerPTF]

They fled blue California for red Colorado.

But they voted blue. And turned Colorado blue.

So they will flee blue Colorado and head to red Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming.

And do it all over again. See: Connecticut. New Hampshire. Georgia.

[Paul Huntsman @pchuntsman]

Oh please…who wrote this editorial? The U’s athletic‘s budget ($125m) is roughly 2% of the U’s overall health science operating budget ($5 billion). Kudos to the U for applying action oriented leadership to a difficult, and uncertain future in athletics. Bring back George.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Masoumeh Ebtekar - also known as "Screaming Mary" - was the spokeswoman for the Islamic terrorists who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days - subjecting them to beatings, starvation, and mock executions.

In 2014, the Obama Administration granted visas to her son and his family to enter the United States. In June 2016, the Obama Administration gave them lawful permanent resident status via the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program.

This week, I terminated their lawful permanent resident status and today, Seyed Eissa Hashemi, Maryam Tahmasebi, and their son are now in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending their removal from our country.

Her family should never have been allowed to benefit from the extraordinary privilege of living in our country.

America can never become home for anti-American terrorists or their families - and under the Trump Administration, it never will.

[Steve Rich @sfrich68]

@ClayTravis Couldn’t happen to a better guy…

[@jason @Jason]

Hey @NYTimesPR, serious question... why aren't you doing this kind of journalism anymore?

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Food for thought.

In The Prince, Machiavelli teaches that a ruler’s first duty is to secure the state, even if that means speaking and acting in ways that shock polite society. He warns that “men in general judge more from appearances than from reality,” and that a successful prince must be judged on the effects of his words, not on whether they conform to genteel norms. Trump’s recent language toward the Iranian regime is not a lapse of self‑control; it is a calculated act of deterrence aimed squarely at the leaders of a state‑sponsored terrorist apparatus.

He is negotiating through intimidation, signalling resolve, ruthlessness, and a willingness either to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages” or to ensure that “a whole civilization will die tonight” in terms that pierce the bubble of diplomatic euphemism and force the IRGC command to reassess its risk tolerance. In that sense, Trump is acting far closer to Machiavelli’s prince than to a modern liberal statesman: he is willing to appear vulgar, even “unhinged,” if doing so strengthens the fear of his threats in the minds of his adversaries.

What is striking is not that a leader dealing with such a regime would use this language, but that so many in the West seem genuinely unable, or unwilling, to recognize the strategy.

They clutch their pearls about tone while ignoring the basic logic of coercive diplomacy: when you want to stop a hostile regime and its terrorist proxies from further escalation, you must shape their expectations, not placate your own commentariat.

Machiavelli’s blunt counsel is that a prince must sometimes speak as both “man and beast,” combining law with the language of force to protect his people. One is left wondering whether our political and media classes have forgotten the oldest lessons of statecraft. Has no one read The Prince?

[Mark Penn @Mark_Penn]

Busted

Gotta love Rubio pulling the green cards of relatives of Iranian terror leaders living the high life (as proudly pictured on social media) in LA while claiming asylum and spewing anti-American, pro-regime hate and going back and forth to visit Iran.

So we grant asylum, which is reserved for those supposedly fleeing a regime, to those who are escaping its strict lifestyle requirements but are going back and forth no doubt in first class and fully supporting the regime. Classic. Rubio stepped in and kiboshed it.

[Ray Greyfox @RayGreyfox]

Can the @TheMasters please advise the press corps to not ask every single player they interview Masters week about Tiger?
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