niles

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

The Democratic establishment deserves a slow clap here.

Really. Bravo.

They spent years building the perfect little political terrarium: NGOs, activist salaries, university grievance factories, donor cash, media protection, blue-city patronage, “equity” rackets, and taxpayer-funded do-gooder laundromats all humming along under the sacred banner of “Our Democracy.”

Then they looked at the radicals crawling around inside and said, “Surely these people will remain manageable.”

Absolutely brilliant, guys.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries now look like substitute teachers trying to take attendance during a prison riot. The donors are sweating through their custom suits. The consultants are pretending this is just a “messaging challenge.” The media is polishing the same old turd and calling it “youth energy.”

No, champ. This is not youth energy.

This is the bill.

You told them America was evil.
You told them capitalism was theft.
You told them police were the enemy.
You told them borders were immoral.
You told them every institution had to be “decolonized,” “reimagined,” or burned down and rebuilt by people with sociology degrees and untreated rage.

Now they believe you.

And worse, they want promotions.

That is the humiliation. The party bosses thought they were renting radicals by the hour. Turns out the radicals thought they were being trained to run the place.

Democrats built the hive, fed the hive, defended the hive, and called anyone who noticed a conspiracy theorist.

Now the hive has the keys.

Enjoy the buzzing.
(article below)

[niles @srqcommer]

@NUCLRGOLF Challenge accepted!

[niles @srqcommer]

@davedaveLa @0hour1

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Heaven ushered in a hero of the faith last night as my Dad was welcomed home!

Many will say sorry for your loss but the truth is he’s not lost, we know exactly where he is.

He’s home.
Forever!

I asked him last week what he looked forward to most about Heaven, and he simply said, “Jesus.”

He couldn’t wait to see Jesus face to face.
Praise God that his wait is over.
Death has been swallowed up in victory.
He’s healed and whole now.

So we don’t mourn as those with no hope.
See you soon Dad!

[niles @srqcommer]

@US_OGA

[Wendy O @CryptoWendyO]

The elephant in the room is not Elon Musk and his wealth.

It’s that taxpayers are funding politician salaries and politicians not serving voters needs

It’s also the mass amount of fraud occurring with taxpayer dollars

[Overton @overton_news]

Kevin O’Leary just said the quiet part out loud about what the Hormuz closure has confirmed about green energy:

“It’s been practically USELESS in helping us at this point right now.”

AOC and the climate alarmists are not going to like this one bit.

O’LEARY: “The one thing about this commodity, it’s the input to EVERY sector of the economy.”

“We have 11 sectors. Every single sector requires a reasonably priced energy source.”

“And you know, we’ve talked a lot about alternative energy and new ideas and nuclear power.”

“But this shock has proven to the world that oil still matters — not a some, it matters A LOT!”

“And I expect policy around hydrocarbons to change dramatically everywhere in terms of securing a source of it at a price, sort of around the $70 range.”

“So you’re going to see that happen and a lot less money going into alternatives.”

“That may not be good or bad, depending on where you sit, but CLEARLY we didn’t buy any insurance investing billions of dollars in wind and solar.”

“It’s been practically USELESS in helping us at this point right now.”

[niles @srqcommer]

@GatorsFB Bourbon 30

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 WTF?! CNN’s Jake Tapper just went out of his way to LIE and call the J6 pipe bomb a “WHITE MAN”

CNN REFUSED to show a picture of the alleged bomber—who is clearly a BLACK MAN—so I overlayed a photo of him on their clip

CNN can’t help themselves but push anti-white rhetoric

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

You can punish all White people for something a White dude did hundreds of years ago but DON’T you DARE punish the Somalis for something tons of Somalis do every day

[jon sumrall saved florida @ilovetoddgolden]

FIRE THIS MANIPULATOR
https://t.co/CWiBn89X9Q

[Our Two Bits @OurTwoBits]

🤔

[SVPod @_SVPod]

.@notthefakeSVP's message to the Loan Processing Department, Fund Review Division...

STOP CALLING

[David Shepardson @davidshepardson]

New: @Delta calls for clean CR to reopen government

[NewsForce @Newsforce]

RFK Jr: "I don't think we'd have free speech in this country if it wasn't for Elon Musk."

[niles @srqcommer]

@AllKindsWeather

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Obamacare (ACA) explained …

Democrats passed Obamacare which made deductibles so high that you rarely ever reach them, so you pay for insurance plus out of pocket for insurance you rarely use.

Designed to hurt working class to fund healthcare for deadbeats and illegal aliens.

From 2014 to 2021 it was getting worse. Then Biden and the Democrats passed temporary subsidies to hide how crazy expensive ACA insurance had become. Those subsidies expire Dec 31, 2025.

Now Democrats want to extend those subsidies. If they could, they would even expand the subsidies more to further hide the disaster of Obamacare.

Before Obamacare health insurance companies could offer cheaper plans with certain things excluded. But Obamacare banned those cheaper plans.