Anthony Mascia

Proud & Loving Dad. Solves Problems As IT Trusted Advisor. ALWAYS Smiling! Sports Geek. Knows when to be quiet. Fountain of obscure but useful information.

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

The con job of the century was convincing black Americans that making the U.S. "diverse" through immigration (rather than bi-racial, which it was) would be GREAT for them.

There has never been an ethnic group as easy to mau-mau as whites - not Arabs, Hispanics, Asians or Indians. Not even close.

Let's check in with the black vote for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan:

<<Abdul El-Sayed ...[is] confronting age-old animosities between the state’s Black and Arab communities.>>

[I like how the NYT refers vaguely to "animosities" and "conflict."]

El-Sayed this week on a podcast aimed at Black audiences:

<<“For too many Black Detroiters, in particular, their experience with somebody who looks like me is not a good one ... You go into a gas station and you go to a party store, you’re being talked at from behind bulletproof glass. You’re a woman, you’re being catcalled. If you’re a kid, you’re being sold a loosie” — a single cigarette — “out the back.”>>

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Intelligence community reform is long overdue. President Trump set out to get it done at the beginning of his second term, but it seems those efforts have been abandoned. The American people deserve a strong DNI who is empowered by POTUS to provide legitimate oversight of the IC. It’s why the role was established in the first place, after the abject failures of 9/11. Appointing Tulsi Gabbard as DNI was a shot across the bow that kicked the IC machine into overdrive, subverting and resisting any attempts for positive change every step of the way. Maybe POTUS got tired of the fight.

The DNI is meant to serve as the final check on any intelligence coming from IC elements like the CIA/NSA/DOW to ensure the intel is presented to POTUS in its proper context. For example: Did we get this intel from a partner nation? How did they collect it? Why are they sharing it with us, and why now?

In the lead up to the Iran war, intelligence was consistently presented to POTUS as “our intelligence,” when, in fact, it came from the Israelis. This is why DNI Gabbard’s public testimony was at times different than the CIA director’s—she testified to the U.S. Congress the consensus of the U.S. intelligence agencies, not of a foreign nation’s.

Real IC reform cannot happen without an empowered DNI who is able to exercise the full scope of the role. The CIA is too proficient at handling the President’s appointed directors—it’s easy to get distracted once you’re caught up in the thrill of espionage & covert operations. Conversely, the DNI has the slightly more removed vantage point to assess operations & intelligence without being a part of the operations.

Without a DNI looking into all covert action & special access programs to assess whether they’re aligned, these programs will continue to operate in the shadows—out of sight from POTUS, the public, & even most of the IC—all the while undermining POTUS’s agenda.

The same concept applies to the DNI’s authority over the much-needed oversight of the FBI’s intelligence activities. Without an empowered DNI, there is no one looking into FBI investigations—like the J5 pipe bombs, the events of J6, or Butler, or Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The list goes on. Without the DNI overseeing the FBI, there is no check on domestic intelligence being used against the American people.

Without legitimate oversight, the CIA & other IC elements will be permitted to continue enacting their own foreign policy, regardless of who the American people elect and the agendas we vote for.

[Steve Krakauer @SteveKrak]

This line is getting praise on X, but it’s actually elitist garbage written by a speechwriter who clearly hasn’t spent much time in a Cheesecake Factory, which has none of the gaudy Trump aesthetic, and just feels good to say because it represents flyover MAGA “night out.”

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Tehran's threats are usually noise. This time the behavior looks different.

The WSJ reports Iran is warning, publicly and in private diplomatic channels, that if the U.S. and Israel restart military strikes, it will hit not only American bases and warships but Gulf airports, pipelines and other civilian and economic targets. Analysts estimate Iran still has hundreds to thousands of ballistic missiles, and U.S. and regional officials believe it has resumed limited production using stockpiled components in underground facilities. Meanwhile, U.S. and Arab interceptor stocks have dwindled, and Israel's are under pressure too.

Then there's the intelligence memo. Axios and CBS News report that the Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton warned Rubio that Iran has "substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel," with lethal plotting at "advanced stages" in the Middle East and elsewhere. The State Department is adjusting staffing at posts across the region, and the military is quietly reducing its footprint. The U.S. has also sent a third carrier and another Marine expeditionary unit.

My read: the tell isn't Tehran's rhetoric. It's a U.S. intelligence chief putting Iranian assassination plots in writing, defenses still depleted, and logistical moves with people and hardware. Governments don't do that over empty threats.

[Anthony Mascia @techROIadvisor]

@stoolpresidente Beck may be bad, but Carr is limited. Underwood is athletic but unschooled.

It's not Beck who's throwing those wounded ducks.

[Anthony Mascia @techROIadvisor]

@Johnubacon Carr's limited, John.

What did you want Beck to do?

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

Eric Trump just flipped the script on Chris Cuomo live on-air, leaving him shocked.

Cuomo accused President Trump of going after his political opponents the moment he took office…

Eric sounded off:

“Did we, did we try and bankrupt Biden? Did we raid Biden's home? Did we try and bankrupt Biden?”

“Did we weaponize every AG and DA against Biden? Do we do that against Hunter Biden who had a laptop from hell, pictures of cocaine, illicit drug use, prostitution?”

“Did we make up a dirty dossier? About Biden, did they try and destroy Biden's marriage? Did we make up stories that Biden had secret servers in the basement of his home communicating with the Kremlin in Russia?”

“Did we strip Biden off the ballot of multiple states? Did we take Biden off of Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and try and silence his voice so he couldn't communicate?”

“Did we put Biden in a courtroom every single day for nonsense to try and keep him off of a campaign trail to try and destroy his life?”

[Pat Ragazzo @ragazzoreport]

"The problem the Mets face is that candidates are more interviewing them than the other way around," a league source told FanSided. "The industry feels like going to the Mets can set your career back."
https://t.co/fRurGB7Tr6

[Moshe @IsraelIDFend]

Looks like the French police were finally ordered to do their jobs.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

4 years of these two bitches asking Biden what his favorite ice cream is and running interference for Hunter

[Mark Horn @MarkHor76914935]

@Johnubacon I was at the game last week and Indiana is making 10x the in stadium money now compared to the pre - Cignetti years. If they have regrets it's not money.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people.

The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Sunny Hostin loves to call illegal immigrants “our neighbors.”

Adam Carolla pops the question she never gets asked on The View: Do you actually know any?

“You hang out with illegals or they mow your f*cking lawn, b*tch?”

CAROLLA: “I do love when like the Sunny Hostin of the world, like, ‘These are our neighbors. These are the people we unhoused.’ You do, Sunny? You know illegals? You hang out with illegals or they mow your f*cking lawn, bitch? YOU DON’T F*CKING HANG OUT WITH THESE PEOPLE. THEY’RE NOT YOUR NEIGHBORS. They don’t sit next to you at church.”

Carolla also nearly pops a blood vessel after Zohran Mamdani calls ICE “rotten to its core."

“So, ICE has killed far more of these people than these people have killed whom? American citizens? I don’t think that’s statistically going to work out.”

“You turn on the news every day there’s an illegal that killed an American. You turn on the news every once in a while and there’s an ICE guy that killed not an illegal but American citizen. It was either wrestling with ICE or blocking him with their van or whatever the f*ck it is this time.”

“Anyway, he’s a f*cking radical nut job.”

“And by the way, the showing the fear and the chaos and all that stuff, THAT’S YOU F*CKING GOING OUT AND WRESTLING WITH THEM. If you leave them alone and let them do their job, then there won’t be the fear and the chaos.”

[Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter]

The NYT calls the French riots "populism". The New York Post blames “grievances” like mass migration. These aren’t Marxists and they aren’t a populist movement. They’re Africans, and the media is inventing a cause for them.

[Fuentes Updates @FuentesUpdates]

Nick Fuentes explains that there's NO EXCUSE for the GOP's failures

"They could have turned it around, but they didn't because they were focused on THEMSELVES! They didn't care!"

[Fuentes Updates @FuentesUpdates]

Nick Fuentes warns that Trump's failures will RUIN JD Vance's chances to win as the next Republican nominee

"The corruption is everywhere... the Democrats are going to find it and RAM IT UP YOUR ASS for two years!"

[Fuentes Updates @FuentesUpdates]

Nick Fuentes explains how this DISASTROUS Trump administration is going to give the presidency to the Democrats

"If we lost the midterms because of these policies of the president, is it really a good idea to run the VICE PRESIDENT in the next one?"

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

President Trump is heading into the midterms with poll numbers in the gutter, and consumer prices in the stratosphere.

All of this could have, and should have, been avoided. First, by not starting a war with Iran, and second by not continuing the war with Iran once the writing was on the wall.

But alas, the president continues on and indicates that more war is on the way. Can the American people handle even higher prices from here?

Watch @RonPaul & @ChrisRossini below:

[Roscoe Smith IV @LoneStarLegendX]

Fun Fact: Nobody had a problem with Indians until we exposed their fraud schemes, fake credentials, nepotism in hiring practices, and abuse of the visa lottery system.

And, Indians responded by telling Americans that they were smarter and better than you in every way + they will never assimilate.

Then, we mocked their low IQ’s and terrible culture so they cried “hate”.

That’s the order of events. Never let them re-write the facts.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Charles Barkley says that Michael Jordan once gave him financial advice during a round of golf centered around taking stock options from Nike instead of cash, and says he followed his advice and it ended up making him $50,000,000

“So I wore 32 one year, but I called Michael and I said, ‘Hey, send me a pair of shoes. I just want to tell you how much I appreciate everything you did for me, giving me that advice on that Nike stock that made me $30 million.’”

“Because at the time I was making about $3 million a year, and we were playing golf, and he said, ‘Chuck, I was talking to somebody. So I want you to quit taking $3 million. Take a million and take the other $2 million in stock options.’”

“So I called my people and said, ‘Hey, Michael told me to do this,’ because Mike’s always been a brilliant businessman. And they’re like, ‘This is risky. You think he’s going to be that great?’”

“I said, ‘Man, I ain’t never seen nobody like that dude,’ because I had met him at the Olympic trials. I said, ‘He’s going to be amazing.’”

“And we did it. And like I said, I ended up probably making, seriously, another $50 million, to be honest with you.”