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White House Communications Director Steven Cheung launched a blistering attack Thursday on late-night host Stephen Colbert, unloading in a social media post that branded the comedian "a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being" while accusing him of driving one of television's most recognizable franchises into the ground.
Not really an accusation. That was the headline in the latest Nielsen book.
The remarks, posted to the platform X, came as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert heads toward its final run on CBS. Cheung mocked what he described as a media effort to frame Colbert's exit as a heartfelt farewell tour, dismissing the coverage and taking direct aim at the host himself. "He's a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being," Cheung wrote, adding that Colbert "killed the legacy of The Late Show."
So what is the little-watched TV clown, last seen propping up a mediocre white man so that he could steal a nomination from a Strong Black Woman, doing with his few remaining weeks?
Well, he's having on a series of guests who spend most of their time gassing Colbert up and assuring him that he's super-funny and super-needed in Current Year.
It's turned into such a solipsistic circle-jerk that even Solipsistic Circle-Jerk Daily, also known as Variety, is blasting Colbert for his cloying self-regard.
Colbert's removal from the air, when it was announced last July, was legitimately seismic news, for the industry and for an audience who saw him as a crucial voice for the anti-Trump Resistance since the 2016 election. The timing of the news, though, meant that Colbert had an entire final season to play out with all parties, from writers and producers to host to guests, knowing that the end was in sight. (This differentiates it from the brief period when "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien's job was in limbo during the O'Brien-Jay Leno succession crisis -- then, the precariousness and uncertainty of the situation gave the show incredible tension and voltage.)
What has ended up making it to air has been an increasingly puffy tribute to the show's own host. The endless bouquets being tossed Colbert's way have started to make the studio smell a bit cloying.
Granted, these are Colbert's guests having an emotional response to a host they liked being removed from air, and in what seems to be an unfair way, to prove new Paramount CEO David Ellison's Trumpist bona fides amidst the Skydance-Paramount merger. It reminds one of how many other institutions are caving right now -- universities, law firms, to say nothing of corporations across the entertainment industry. But the show's focus on its own host's misfortune has become outsized and a bit dramatic, especially because so many other institutions are in crisis: With everything else going on in the world, we have to go through a monthslong celebration-of-life for a comedian whose job is coming to an end?
Stephen Colbert is a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being. He's kicking and screaming like a baby because he's an entitled prick who has lost touch with reality. The fact is that he will soon be forgotten because nobody likes a loser who killed the legacy of The Late Show. https://t.co/uRcFgodmqA
Late night's 11:35 p.m. ratings race delivered another split decision the week of March 1, with CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert topping the hour in total viewers, while ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! led among younger viewers.
This is misleading: Gutfeld topped them both by +50%.
But he's not specifically on at 11:35 -- a time they're insisting is the only real "late night show" starting time to fence out the competition that beats them every single night.
According to Nielsen Live+3 ratings data, The Late Show averaged 2.43 million total viewers for the week (+1 percent), enough to lead the broadcast field. Jimmy Kimmel Live! finished second with 2.28 million viewers (+5 percent) but led the hour among adults 18--49, drawing 263,000 viewers (+17 percent) to Colbert's 219,000 (+5 percent).
2.43 million in a nation of 350 million, huh?
And how about those in-the-demo numbers -- 219,000.
Wow.
NBC's Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon also saw growth last week, averaging 1.35 million total viewers (+10 percent) and 191,000 adults 18--49 (+29 percent) across four original episodes and one repeat.
And they're only seeing "growth," if you can call it that, because deranged lefties for whom network propaganda TV is their church and pulpit are tuning in to hear how terribly the Iran war is going.
On cable, Fox News' Gutfeld! again drew the largest overall audience among the shows we track, averaging 3.73 million total viewers (+10 percent) and 315,000 adults 18--49 (+38 percent) across four new episodes. The show was preempted Monday night by Fox News' Iran war coverage but benefited from the broader surge in cable news viewership tied to the conflict.
Weird that this outfit claims that Gutfeld benefited from the Iran war, but pretends the lefty propagandists did not.
Amidst all this #Winning, I have some sad news to add:
Buzzfeed, the digital media company that took the mid-2010s by storm, said on Thursday it has "substantial doubt" about its ability to continue as a business.
In an earnings report released Thursday, Buzzfeed said it has engaged in "strategic conversations" about relieving its liquidity issues.
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The company was $165 million in debt three years ago; that's been slashed by more than 65%, Buzzfeed said. But Matt Omer, Buzzfeed's chief financial officer, said the company is still burdened by legacy commitments. Alongside its namesake, Buzzfeed also owns news site Huffpost and online food network Tasty.
"Burdened" by HuffPo, huh?
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In 2025, Buzzfeed had a net loss of $57.3 million, according to its earning report. The company noted it did not have enough resources to fund its cash obligations for the next year.
For those of you who are visual learners: If you imagine a pie graph, Buzzfeed lost $57.3 million of pie. Also, the pie was made of ratshit and hobo jizz.
BTW, that story is from CNN. Another company for which there is substantial doubt about its ability to remain in business. Also made of ratshit and hobo jizz.
Socialist Cuba Has Finally Run Out of Other People's Money and Is Looking for a Deal with Trump
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Cuba had been receiving free oil from Venezuela. Well, not free -- Cuba supplied Venezuela with top intelligence agents and torturers in exchange for the oil.
But then Trump, probably on Bibi Netanyahu's orders because, obviously, sent Delta Force in to shoot L.O.O.K.E.R. guns at Cuba's security forces and abduct Nicolas Maduro.
The oil shipments stopped.
Trump also began raiding and seizing the "dark fleet" of illegal oil tankers moving sanctioned Iranian and Russian oil to low-class shithole barbarian states.
The Cuban "president," Miguel Díaz-Canel, made yet another rare appearance on state TV and confirmed that the regime is currently in talks with the United States. He said, "There are international factors that have facilitated these talks," and said the goal is "first and foremost, to identify the bilateral problems that need a solution."
After weeks of denying any sort of U.S. negotiations, this is the first time he's admitted they're happening. He called it a "very sensitive process that is being approached with responsibility and great sensitivity."
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Díaz-Canel also admitted that the country has not received any oil in three months and is almost out of reserves.
What's interesting is that Raúl Castro's grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, aka El Cangrejo or "The Crab," was at Díaz-Canel's side during the announcement. He and Marco Rubio have allegedly been having backchannel talks in recent weeks, and Rubio's team even supposedly met with the young Castro when Rubio was in the Caribbean in late February.
Of course, Donald Trump has been floating the idea of a "friendly takeover" of Cuba for weeks and has said that Rubio is currently working on that.
However, right now, this unusual announcement feels more like appeasement than any sort of concession. The regime is backed into a corner, and it doesn't really have a leg to stand on at the moment. It's nervous, shaky, and sees the writing on the wall.
Either way, its days are numbered. These are the same types of actions made by all of the crumbling regimes of the past.
Cuba claims it will definitely not be making any concessions about letting the people actually vote for their leaders.
The Cuban regime would be wise to learn the lesson of the recent Witkoff-Aragchi negotiations. If you try and jerk President Trump around, rather than make serious proposals to accommodate American demands, you will wake up at 4am one morning to Delta Force at your door https://t.co/Wq1LjZugns
Trump doesn't even need to send in Delta Force. The coming Fuel Riots should provide Cuba's leaders with a certain amount of realism about their situation.
And when they start killing protester -- drones and missiles should help even the odds.
For decades, our elites have been obsessed with regime change by color revolution, trying to create a world where everybody owns nothing and is unhappy. Western governments have surrendered to soft communism and self-destruction.
Donald Trump is remaking the world, not through color revolutions, but bold leadership and the surgical application of force and maximum pressure on our adversaries.
During his first term, I strongly believed that Trump's foreign policy was his best achievement. He had yet to learn how to defang the Deep State, and despite listening too often to establishment figures, he did a great job with what he had.
Now, with the Rubio, Hegseth, and negotiating teams he has deployed, he is masterful.
He notes that Germany is having a long-overdue attitude adjustment as well. Germany's Merz and the Female Super-Villain Leader of the EU now admit that ending all nuclear power generation was a bit of an oopsie!, but Merz also says he won't do anything to reverse this mistake. I saw someone point out that he could undo it, but he's in partnership with leftwing groups to keep AfD out of power, and if he moved to save German's future, his government would collapse and AfD would (rightfully) take power.
Georg Pazderski
@Georg_Pazderski
Translated from German
MERZ sells citizens for stupid❗️
Because previous governments had decided on the nuclear phase-out, it could no longer be reversed.
When it came to the debt brake, he couldn't care less what the previous governments had decided.
PLAIN TALK: He's too cowardly to take on the fight with the SPD.
Wow it's weird how the Latin American left suddenly started losing elections when USAID was killed https://t.co/syKtIwFLcF
Via Ed Morrissey, quoting Politico 4 Kidz Axios, Trump informed the feckless cunts of the G7 that Iran is about to surrender and also you're welcome, faggots.
President Trump told G7 leaders in a virtual meeting Wednesday that Iran is "about to surrender," according to three officials from G7 countries briefed on the contents of the call.
24 hours later, Iran's new supreme leader issued his first public statement vowing to keep fighting. ...
That's egregious propaganda. There is no proof the "leader" issued a statement -- a written statement was read by someone else by a regime propagandist. There is no evidence the Supine Leader released anything besides pus, and Axios knows this. There are confirmed reports that he is in a coma. (And is "likely disfigured," added Pete Hegseth.)
But Axios pretends it knows better and uses its own authority to claim the Supine Leader "issued a statement."
Behind the scenes: Trump boasted about the results of Operation Epic Fury on the G7 call Wednesday morning, telling allies, "I got rid of a cancer that was threatening us all."
While claiming Iran was about to surrender, he also suggested there were no officials left alive in Tehran with the power to make that decision.
Israeli Air Force strikes over 250 Iranian drones, launch platforms, and sites in western Iran, killing key commanders and soldiers and preventing immediate drone attacks on Israel. pic.twitter.com/FEJUDGlRfg
IN A recent speech given in the House of Lords to the Cambridge University Conservative Association, Dr Gavin Ashenden, for ten years a chaplain to the Queen, spoke of a 'respected' imam with whom he had worked 'for quite a long time' while running inter-faith seminars at the university where he was employed.
At the conclusion of one of these events, Dr Ashenden relates, this man confided in him as follows: 'I've been doing this for an awfully long time, but my task is complete. I arrived in the 1970s with the aim of inaugurating an Islamic republic of Great Britain, and I've done it. This country is going to be an Islamic republic or, at least, a partitioned portion of it, in the time of my grandchildren.'
In fact, he continued, things were going so well that it could happen even within the lifetime of his children.
Dr Ashenden records this incident as occurring 'long before Angela Merkel opened the border to the millions' in 2015. Most of the under-16s who, according to the imam, comprised the majority of the Muslims in Britain a dozen or more years ago, have now gained access to the polling booths, allowing a combination of demography and a democratic system designed to cater for a non-sectarian population to 'achieve what agitation would take longer to do'.
I find it fascinating that supposed "American Firsters" like Tucker Carlson have completely stopped questioning our alliance with the Islamic states of Europe -- who we have explicitly promised to use nuclear weapons to defend, which of course makes us targets of a nuclear attack.
There's only one, ONE, actual ally they're fighting to break ties with and declare enemy. And it just so happens to be the one ally with the capability of, and desire to, fight the Islamic conquerors that are keeping Tucker Carlson in luxurious bowties.
The Left -- and Me-Again Kelly -- Say That the Cultural Enricher Who Tried to Blow Up a Synagogue Filled with Jewish Children Was Justified Because "Family Members" Had Been Killed by Israel
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Just one thing they omitted to mention:
The "family members" killed by Israel were Hezballah terrorists.
Imagine if a man attacked a black church, specifically targeting black children, because a black man killed his daughter. Imagine if someone told you "that's not racism, that's blowback"
idk, that would seem like a weird take to me bc it's saying that the killer is not a someone… pic.twitter.com/ch7MQoZnFW
An Illegal Alien With a Criminal Record As Long as David French's Bull Roster Has Been Deported Four Times, But Is Still Allowed to Walk Around NYC Pushing Strangers In Front of Oncoming Subway Trains
Mamdani signed an Executive Order banning police from cooperating with DHS or ICE.
And this Terror Simp also refuses to force them into homeless shelters during extreme cold. So instead they take refuge in the subway stations and victimize people trying to get to work.
The homeless are filling the subway stations because of Mamdani, and psychopathically violent foreign killers are allowed to roam the streets because of Mamdani.
Well done, New York City Democrats. Give yourselves all a raise.
Chilling cellphone footage taken by a victim of a random subway shove shows the moment a migrant who allegedly shoved him and an 83-year-old man calmly walk away after the unprovoked violence.
Video obtained by The Post shows Honduran national Bairon Hernandez, 34, strolling along the platform after allegedly pushing an 83-year-old man and a second younger man onto the tracks at a station on the Upper East Side around noon Sunday.
Hernandez was arrested at about 5 a.m. Tuesday at a Brooklyn homeless shelter and charged with attempted murder, attempted assault, assault and reckless endangerment.
Grandfather and Air Force veteran Richard Williams, the older of the two victims, is still fighting for his life at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.
"My father, Richard, is on a respirator in the ICU in the hospital. That's all we are going to say," one of Williams' daughters told The Post on Tuesday.
Hernandez reportedly didn't say a word throughout and hadn't interacted with his victims before the incident.
The younger victim helped Williams off the tracks and fellow straphangers got the pair back onto the platform before a train came.
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It comes after the NYPD revealed transit crime spiked nearly 20% in February as cold weather policies prevented cops from booting rule-breaking passengers from the subway.
He was last deported in 2020 -- under Trump. He reentered the country at an unknown date, but I'm gonna guess it was under Biden.
Per CBS: The result of free-range homeless and sanctuary murder policies is having exactly the effect that you predicted it would have, and which Democrats and the media vowed it would not have:
So far in 2026, there have been nine subway push incidents according to the NYPD. By way of comparison, there were 19 in all of 2025 and 26 in all of 2024.
Cellphone footage taken by a victim of a random subway shove shows the moment a migrant who allegedly shoved him and an 83-year-old man calmly walk away after the unprovoked violence. https://t.co/dsNkmUXYNmpic.twitter.com/KWCqWSQFuc
After a Jewish temple was JUST ATTACKED by a terrorist in West Bloomfield, Michigan, the anchor at a local station in Detroit feels the need to connect it to "white supremacy."
Anchor: "Its not just a fear of Iran and what's happening, there's a rise in white supremacy."
— The Constitutional Conservative (@TheCCShowcast) March 12, 2026
MS NOW is already suggesting the Republican Party has something to do with the Michigan Synagogue shooter: "The Republican party is having, right now, a real fight on its hands, has a real fight on its hands amid wings of the Republican Party that are extremely antisemitic or… pic.twitter.com/bcjsrtxpmU
It's an entirely new rulebook. They used to just downplay Islamic terror, but just as they did with Charlie Kirk, they now spring into action and immediatly blame the act on the right.
They mention Nick Fuentes, an online influencer, and ignore institutionalized antisemitism on the left, in Congress (The Squad), candidates with nazi tattoos, in Academia, and in their own media circles.
You know, of course, the NYT's eternal claim that "The motive may never be known" when bearded Tusken Raiders are shouting "Allahu Akbar" and shaking their gaffi sticks.
The NYT now modifies that tactic: Now they will admit that maybe they know the motive, so long as they also communicate The motive is a justifiable one because Muslims are mad that Israel exists.
The NYT is now also following CNN in the "these were just typical All-American boys who somehow found themselves caught up in some mischievous Islamic terrorism."
I know that last Friday I said I was just going to do quick posts to take an early day but that didn't really happen. I'm going to try again today. I also expect it not to happen this time.
THE MORNING RANT: Mounting Setbacks for BlackRock and the Woke Asset Management Cartel
—Buck Throckmorton
BlackRock, the massive asset management company controlled by Machiavellian CEO Larry Fink, is having a bad go of it recently. Mr. Fink famously tried to use BlackRock’s power and influence as custodial owner of investors’ mutual fund shares to compel corporations to adopt his radical political agenda. Mr. Fink sought to make corporations submit to Net Zero, DEI, ESG, and all the other pathologies of the woke left. With Vanguard and State Street as his obedient political allies, Mr. Fink’s cartel is the largest shareholder of the overwhelming majority of S&P 500 stocks.
Funds invested in a 401k buys shares of stock, but the asset management cartel’s members, as the technical owner of those stocks, were casting proxy votes on your behalf to force corporations to endorse the left’s crazy agenda. The despicable use of your retirement funds to push a political agenda may have just ended, thanks to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with AGs from ten other red states.
The Attorney Generals have been suing the three big asset managers, but Vanguard just capitulated, agreeing to settle and stop its woke political practices. But best of all, Vanguard will be providing information to the AGs which may further implicate BlackRock and State Street in collusion and/or other anti-trust crimes.
• Vanguard will pay a $29.5 million penalty to the 11 states for its role in harming the energy industry.
• Vanguard has committed to not impose ESG goals that affect customers’ profitability.
• Vanguard will no longer attempt to direct its portfolio companies’ business strategies.
• Vanguard will no longer “threaten its portfolio companies that it will withdraw from its holdings unless they agree to act (or not act) in some manner.”
• Vanguard will no longer nominate directors or shareholder proposals to its portfolio companies. The days of imposing green board members and net zero proposals on businesses is over.
• Vanguard will start allowing retail investors (e.g you and me) to have proxy votes for investments in funds of US companies.
Ken Paxton pulled no punches in describing what comes across as mafia-like behavior by the asset management companies. Here are some quotes from that press release from AG Paxton’s office:
Attorney General Paxton’s lawsuit seeks to lower the cost of coal—and, thereby, electricity prices—throughout the United States by combatting a BlackRock-led cartel that sought to drive up the price of coal under the guise of “green energy.”
BlackRock’s efforts produced massive profits for itself and its co-conspirators and raised the prices of electricity on consumers throughout the United States. To further profit on the back of Americans, BlackRock also deceived thousands of its investors who elected to invest in non-ESG funds. The Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) have taken legal action to support Attorney General Ken Paxton’s lawsuit by filing a joint statement of interest.
“While Vanguard has taken appropriate action to resolve this case, Blackrock and State Street have continued to ignore state laws, engage in anticompetitive schemes that hurt American energy, and undermine those who use their services to invest.
This is a big moment, and what so many of us fighting against woke capital have been seeking. Attorney General Paxton (along with Kansas Atty General Kris Kobach and nine others) deserve abundant praise for this victory against the capture of corporate governance by a small cartel of evil asset managers.
But this is just a start. Now that Vanguard has capitulated, it’s in the position of turning state’s evidence against BlackRock and State Street.
BREAKING: BlackRock is in major trouble. Today, a seismic shift has happened in the antitrust case brought against the ESG asset manager cartel of BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard Group. Vanguard is admitting defeat, agreeing to settle the lawsuit brought by a coalition of State Attorneys General, led by @KenPaxtonTX
As part of the settlement they will pay $30 million in fines, turn over all documents related to their coordinated ESG activism, and end all ESG activism for years to come. This is a massive win. The reckoning is here. This settlement with Vanguard is a major blow to the ESG asset manager cartel that sets the stage for more to come. The Attorneys General sought and got long overdue accountability and a massive course correction from Vanguard. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink should be extremely worried about what could be uncovered next, and who's going to fold next. If State Street folds and admits defeat as well, he will be left on an island on his own.
If it is revealed that there was actual communication among BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street on coordinating their strategies for imposing ESG on corporations, criminal prosecution against those involved is warranted.
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The Hotel BlackRock – You Can Never Leave
There’s even more bad news for Larry Fink. BlackRock stock is crashing due to investors who are desperate to pull money out of “private credit” funds. BlackRock has shut the door, not allowing investors to get all their money back.
To be fair, the investors were naive to entrust their money to Larry Fink in a fund that allows you to invest, but not necessarily withdraw your funds. They were seduced into investing in “exclusive” funds that are perceived to be the prestigious investment vehicle of the rich and savvy. Like hedge funds, these private credit funds are fairly illiquid. The effect for investors is that they get statements showing how much their investment is worth, but they are prohibited from withdrawing it all.
Much like a bank run, investors recently started pulling out of BlackRock’s private credit funds, causing a stampede of other investors wanting to get their money out too. BlackRock was forced to tell panicked investors, “No,” they could not pull all their money out of the freefalling fund.
BlackRock is blocking investors from fully exiting its $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund after redemption requests hit 9.3% of shares in Q1, well above the fund’s 5% quarterly cap. It marks the first time withdrawal requests have exceeded that limit, and the market is reacting accordingly.
The contagion risk is real. Private credit funds are structurally illiquid by design, and when one high-profile name restricts exits, investors in similar vehicles tend to rush for the door simultaneously. Blackstone, Apollo, and KKR are now under heightened scrutiny as a result.
BlackRock stock is down 15% in the past three weeks, and down about 25% from its high point earlier this year. It may be time for Larry Fink to retire and spend more time with his legal defense teamfamily and let someone without such a tarnished reputation steer BlackRock out of the mess that Mr. Fink put it in.
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Other Stuff I’m Writing About
My latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “Shipping Interruption in Persian Gulf Is Yet Another Reminder of the Risks of Offshoring” discusses how the major shipping chokepoints (Panama Canal, Suez Canal, Strait of Hormuz) have all had major stoppages or slow-downs in recent years, and how completely reckless it was of the United States to become so dependent on imports.
The utopian ideal of one peaceful, global market does not exist and cannot exist. The various chokepoints that keep getting choked off prove the recklessness of having the U.S. so dependent on foreign imports. This recent shipping interruption in the Strait of Hormuz is another reminder of why economic independence is so necessary. We’d be in a perilous situation if the U.S. hadn’t become energy independent. There is no excuse for the United States to be dependent on anything that can be sourced or manufactured domestically.
This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest piece at The American Spectator:
“Reckless idealism about global trade has blinded too many people to the risk of having an import-dependent economy.”
Good morning kids. Let's see, first a potential Islamikaze car bombing of a synagogue and then a mass shooting at Old Dominion University but let's not blow this out of proportion.
So we’ve got a known ISIS terrorist from Sierra Leone and a Lebanese Muslim terrorist, who had this stuff all over his social media, who were both able to get citizenship, remain in this country and plot their attacks. And much of our political elite is still demanding that we keep allowing the Muslim mass migration to continue. Two attacks in one day is a wake-up call. The latest one. It shows how many Muslim terrorists we have in this country. What more are we waiting for? 3 attacks in one day? 4? When does it get to be enough?
Not sure about you, but I’m noticing a pattern, and the groupings of violent attacks by date are getting closer and closer together, and more violent. Something tells me this won’t end on its own.
The worse it gets, and the more obvious the pattern, the harder the left is working to make “Islamophobia” the issue, not the fact that radical Islamists are a very real threat to Americans on our soil right now.
Let's not lose our heads over this. Oh, wait a minute. It's just Friday the 13th. Triskaidekaphobia sufferers I feel for you but, your fear of a 13-sided Sandy Duncan* is irrational. Islam and Leftism on the other hand...
*Triscuit reference, Oh never mind.
Have a great weekend!
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Hezbollah said the assault marked the start of a new military campaign dubbed “Operation Eaten Straw.” The name references Surah Al-Fil (“The Elephant") in the Quran, which recounts the destruction of an invading army that attempted to attack the Kaaba holy site in Mecca and was ultimately left “like eaten straw” after divine intervention. Israel responded within minutes. The Israel Defense Forces said it launched a wide-scale wave of strikes across Lebanon, targeting rocket launchers, command centers, and other Hezbollah infrastructure. Hezbollah Launches Front on Israel in Joint IRGC Strike — ‘Serious Escalation Ahead’
Authorities have launched rescue efforts for the crew of the lost plane while the second aircraft safely touched down, according to CENTCOM. Officials said the incident took place in airspace friendly to the U.S. and was not caused by hostile or friendly fire. US Aircraft Crashes Amid Iran War And Prompts Rescue Efforts, CENTCOM Says
Douglas Murray: After all, a future US president might not have the resolve to stop the Mullah’s and their ambitions. Some day we’ll get another Jimmy Carter or Joe Biden. Trump rightly started this historic mission. And he’s the only person who will also be able to finish it. But on America’s terms. Trump’s decision to fight Iran is historic — but he needs to finish the job
Not sure about you, but I’m noticing a pattern, and the groupings of violent attacks by date are getting closer and closer together, and more violent. Something tells me this won’t end on its own. The worse it gets, and the more obvious the pattern, the harder the left is working to make “Islamophobia” the issue, not the fact that radical Islamists are a very real threat to Americans on our soil right now. Who Was Brandon Shah, the Patriot Killed by a Radical Islamist at Old Dominion?
Authorities say 36-year-old Mohamed Jalloh entered a classroom on the Virginia campus and asked whether it was an ROTC class before opening fire, killing an instructor and wounding two students. Investigators say the unidentified cadet rushed the gunman and stabbed him, ending the attack before it could escalate further, according to the New York Post. Hero ROTC Cadet Stabbed ISIS-Inspired Shooter To Death, Saving Lives
The city’s revived “Dream Keeper” initiative is spending millions on groups that have offered an all-black drag show, “ancient Egyptian” healing, and free doulas for “Black birthing people”—potentially in violation of federal law. Inside San Francisco’s Racialist Slush Fund
The convictions bring an end to a long-running fraud investigation brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania into the Savani Group of dental facilities across multiple states. Indian Migrants Guilty of Multistate Taxpayer, Visa, Healthcare Fraud
The Senate overwhelmingly passed a housing legislation package closely aligned with President Donald Trump’s agenda despite some GOP lawmakers’ concerns over a digital currency provision. The chamber voted 89-10 with nine Republican senators and one Democrat voting against the bipartisan “21st Century ROAD to Housing Act” over a provision they believe does not go far enough in restraining the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency. Nine Republicans Vote Against Housing Policies Trump Champions Over Fed Provision
With Gulf production largely offline, the door is open for the United States to assert leadership. Last year, Trump set up the National Energy Dominance Council to “expand all forms of reliable and affordable energy production.” How Iran’s forced oil crisis is Trump’s energy opportunity
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The United States Treasury Department has imposed new sanctions on fake charities that funnel money to a genocidal Islamic terrorist group and on North Korean assets who engage in schemes to defraud American businesses and fund foreign weapons programs. U.S. Treasury Sanctions Hamas ‘Charities,’ North Korean Scammers
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Still, better than building EVs nobody wants to buy. The company said the EVs had to go to avoid future losses, complaining about the “current business environment where the demand for EVs is declining significantly.” Honda Just Lost Billions on EVs It Can't Sell
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
While legal, the governor's solicitation of donations to the California Partners Project raises ethical questions, allowing Siebel Newsom to collect a substantial salary. Inside Siebel Newsom's nonprofit that funds... herself
Matt Mackowiak, who serves as the Cornyn campaign’s communications director, wrote on Twitter (now X): “It’s time to defrock Breitbart from the conservative movement. Treat them like Infowars. Pressure their advertisers. Ignore them.” Top Cornyn Staffer Egged on Destructive Ad Boycott of MAGA Media.
The GOP should stick with Trump’s strategy — not capitulate to fringe activists like the Left did. How (Not) To Win In 2028
Sting is low-cost to produce but labor-intensive to operate. Once we solve that problem, which ought to be easy enough to do, we have an anti-drone drone that can be put in large numbers on any flat surface, just waiting for the GO! command to do its thing. I Have Seen the Future of Anti-Drone Warfare, and It's Dirt-Cheap (Really!)
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Raw Egg Nationalist: RFK Jr.'s latest proposal might be his most quietly radical yet. Let the Man Cook
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Using data from a number of orbiting space telescopes, astronomers think they have detected the collision of two exoplanets, producing debris that for about 200 days variably blocked the light from the system’s star. Have astronomers spotted the collision of two exoplanets around a Sunlike star? (George Pal was prescient? - jjs)
The question astronomers will try to answer with this telescope is whether the solar activity on these stars is high enough to prevent life from forming in the star’s habitable zone. Because these stars are dim and small, the habitable zone is quite close to the star, which means solar activity has a higher impact on the planet. We don’t yet have sufficient data to determine the normal activity of such stars. Sparcs will provide a good first survey. Cubesat ultraviolet space telescope achieves first light
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
All the smug fury was based on a news item — from noted military-journalism site TMZ! — about the Defense Department spending $22 million on lobster and ribeye steak in a single month. If they’d bothered to check the (transparently idiotic!) assumption that all the eats were for the top brass, they’d have learned that a “surf & turf” fete is a longstanding military tradition, a treat for troops headed to a deployment or stuck on an extended tour, with all the gastrointestinal joy that a diet of MREs can deliver. ‘Lobstergate’ again exposes the ignorant bias of TV’s ‘best and brightest’
Younger generations may resent the boomers’ good fortune, but Dave Barry’s memoir suggests their real edge was simpler: laugh often, stay social, and remain curious about the world. Boomer Wisdom
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People who were in on the early tests are raving about it, and the recommended specs are a welcome return to normalcy. You do need 150GB of storage - SSD mandatory - but apart from that a five year old Ryzen 5 5600, 16GB of RAM, and a mid-range Radeon 6700 XT should be fine. And that's the recommended hardware; the minimum spec lists a Ryzen 2600X processor from 2018, and a Radeon 5500 XT, a low-end graphics card from 2019.
Nice change from games like Borderlands 4 which perform poorly even with a 9800 X3D and an RTX 5090.
The Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority has announced toll prices for the upcoming Gordie Howe International Bridge.
The new bridge connects I-75 in Detroit to Highway 401 in Ontario. The Detroit Regional Chamber called it “the most consequential infrastructure project in the state.”
The Gordie Howe Bridge is owned by Michigan and Canada, but is being paid for almost entirely by Canada. While the bridge does not have an official opening date, it is still expected to open to traffic this spring.
On Wednesday, March 11, the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority announced both the toll prices and Breakaway, a toll discount program that allows vehicles to pass through toll lanes without having to stop and pay.
With Breakaway, the toll for passenger vehicles is less than half the current price to cross the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, both of which raised their tolls this year.
Speaking at the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tackled the growing public skepticism surrounding artificial intelligence, acknowledging the warning from President Donald Trump that AI is facing a major public relations problem. Moreover, the tech executive validated widespread anxieties about the future of employment, admitting that the traditional balance between labor and capital is shifting drastically.
Addressing the current backlash, Altman noted that AI has become a widespread scapegoat for corporate downsizing and rising utility costs. “Data centers are getting blamed for electricity prices hikes. Almost every company that does layoffs is blaming AI, whether or not it really is about AI,” Altman explained, recalling his recent warning that some companies were engaging in what’s called “AI washing,” in blaming layoffs on new tech regardless if that was the reason for those layoffs in the first place. However, while some of the immediate blame might be misplaced, Altman confirmed that the underlying threat to traditional employment is grounded in reality.
New research conducted by the University of Bristol and developer Meaning Machine shows that gamers enjoy playing with AI-powered non-playable characters.
The study comprised 68 people – 31 male, 31 female, seven non-binary – playing the studio's murder mystery game Dead Meat, in which users are tasked with interrogating suepects. The investigation showed that 95% of study participants found the experience enjoyable, while 97% found playing the game to be rewarding.
75% found that Dead Meat allowed them to "express themselves or make meaningful choices". University of Bristol researchers say that all the above sentiments remained true across the different types of games that were in the study.
One sentiment expressed by participants was how the AI-powered NPCs in Dead Meat allowed for freedom of expression.
Baby pig liberated from pet store -- to be honest, that sounds like they just conned the pet store to give them a pig for free -- is raised by her big brother dog.
In case you missed it: All Day Batman Dreams About Sex.
Earlier I mentioned Toto. Here's "Africa," but with all the lyrics changed to the countries of Africa. So like if you're going on Jeopardy, this is useful.
Updates On the Last Two of the Four Muslim Terrorist Attacks This Month Alone
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Jerry Dunleavy IV
@JerryDunleavy
Property of Allah hoodie guy shoots a bunch of people in Austin. ISIS-loving teens throw IEDs at anti-Islam protesters in NYC. An attack on a synagogue in Michigan. And an ISIS-supporting convict shoots up an ROTC classroom in Virginia. This is all within the month of March, btw.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
45m
BREAKING: I'm told by three law enforcement sources that the vehicle used in the attack at a Michigan synagogue today is registered to a naturalized U.S. citizen from Lebanon who lives in Dearborn, MI.
I have a name, but am waiting for confirmation that name matches the badly burned corpse that was driving the vehicle.
Can only confirm the vehicle registration right now.
Ilhan Omar: ”We should be more fearful of white men. We should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.” pic.twitter.com/uLXZwrNdvD
The party with actual terrorists for AGs and Congresswomen says that's the GOP that has the "real problem with antisemitism:"
MS NOW is already suggesting the Republican Party has something to do with the Michigan Synagogue shooter: "The Republican party is having, right now, a real fight on its hands, has a real fight on its hands amid wings of the Republican Party that are extremely antisemitic or… pic.twitter.com/bcjsrtxpmU
Tucker Carlson: When I claimed the Hasidic charity Chabad was pushing the Iran war to take over the Al-Aksa Mosque, and when I claimed that "unconditional surrender" was being demanded so that Jews (and Americans, too) could rape Iran's daughters, I was in no way inciting additional terrorist attacks by my very good Islamofascist allies and patrons.
Tucker has spent the past few weeks declaring Jews want to burn down Al Aqsa and that American soldiers want to commit heinous crimes against Muslims. In the wake of a series of Islamic terror attack, he chooses not to condemn them, slips in an additional attack against Jews, and… https://t.co/yjk46XzGnK
Rosanna Arquette Attacks Quentin Tarantino for Use of the N-Word as "Racist and Creepy," Tarantino Snipes Back That She's Irrelevant, Old, and Looking for Headlines to Advertise a New Movie She Directed
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Variety
@Variety
Mar 9
Quentin Tarantino fires back at "Pulp Fiction" star Rosanna Arquette after she criticized his use of the N-word in movies as "racist and creepy."
"Dear Rosanna,
I hope the publicity you're getting from 132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was worth disrespecting me and a film I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be a part of?
Do you feel this way now?
Very possibly.
But after I gave you a job, and you took the money, to trash it for what I suspect is very cynical reasons, shows a decided lack of class, no less honor.
There is supposed to be an esprit de corps between artistic colleagues.
But it would appear the objective was accomplished.
Congratulations
Q"
I find Tarantino's constant use of the n-word annoying as I find many of his "I'm so cool" tics annoying.
But racist? No, not if you know anything about him.
He had no father. His mother dated a black guy. Without any other male role model, Tarantino copied this black guy's mannerisms and sayings.
Whenever you hear a Tarantino character say something that sounds "black", like "we got everything here from a diddle-eyed-joe to a damned-if-I-know," that is probably a direct lift from this black guy that Tarantino took as a surrogate father.
Why do Tarantino characters constantly reference blaxploitation movies? Why does Tarrantino have an encyclopedic knowledge of blaxploitation movies, and regards them as high art?
Because Tarantino used to watch those movies with this black guy.
So why does Tarantino say the n-word all the time? Because he heard his surrogate father figure always using it, and he thought it sounded so cool. And he's a lonely geek who has always sought ways to seem cool.
Does that get him a pass? Well, I don't even know if a "pass" is needed to use a word in an artistic medium, particularly when we hear every single black male celebrity saying it, but yeah, if a pass is even needed, I'd say that gets him a pass.
Should he have also cut out Hans Lanza saying "Jew" and "Jews are like rats" in Inglorius Basterds? Or is it singularly the n-word that is off limits?
The guy is annoying, no doubt. And his thing with feet is fetishistic.
But racist? He hero-worships a black guy his mom used to date and imitates him in what they tell me is the highest form of flattery. That's racist now, too?
Tell me -- what is not racist, now, exactly?
Rosanna Arquette, meanwhile, is trash. She has always been a famewhore and liar. You may have heard that Toto's song "Rosanna" was written for or about Rosanna Arquette. If you heard that, you heard that ultimately from Rosanne Arquette, who put that lie around the media to make her -- then an unknown actress -- seem important.
In fact, the guys from Toto say the song was written about a member's girlfriend, not Arquette. The song was called "Rochelle" or something -- whatever her name was -- but that didn't fit the meter. They met Rosanna Arquette, realized "Rosanna" fit the three-beat meter, and changed the song title to that.
That doesn't make the song "for" her or "about" her. She just had a name with three syllables they thought would make a better lyric than "Rochelle."
As they say, "that bitch road our coattails for twenty years."
Since the nineties, I've heard Steven Spielberg was trying to make some kind of movie about aliens. I think he was working on a project for years called "Watch the Skies" or "Dark Skies" or something.
Well, he finally made another alien movie.
I'll leave it up to you if this is something.
And here's something. I tried to watch The IT Crowd because I heard it was good, and because it was written by Graham Lineman, the Irish comedy writer cancelled because he (checks notes) opposes chopping off children's genitals or breasts.
It didn't click with me. It was too silly.
However, I watched an episode a few weeks ago that I really liked, and that got me into the show. Apparently other people think it's a top episode too.
So here's "Italian for Beginners." It starts off a little slow because he's doing all the set-up for the punchlines that come in the last ten minutes. It's worth being a little patient with.
As for the premise of the show: Jen is kind of a con artist who bluffs her way into a job at a company that produces... I have no idea. I don't know if they ever bother to say.
She creates a job called "Human Relations" which will help the IT department interface with the company's normal people. She has no technical skills and I don't know if she has any skills of any kind. She's not stupid, but nor is she weighted down by usefulness or talent.
That's all you really have to know.
And I have to warn you again: it's slow in the beginning, just set-ups and silliness without laughs. It all pays off at the end.
Confirmed: New "Supreme Leader" Is In Coma, Lost Leg In Airstrike
—Disinformation Expert Ace
supreme leader more like supine leader amirite
"Insider (World News)" claims the rumor is now confirmed.
Insider (World News)
@InsiderWN
#BREAKING: Iranian supreme leader confirmed in a coma, and had his leg amputated.
Now if the word of "Insider (World News)" isn't good enough for you -- and I don't know why it wouldn't be -- @JeremyUnplugged has the smoking gun photographic proof.
I love this meme like Cavernous Nostrils loves white boys who can advance her career.
By the way, I said abashedly...
Earlier in the week I saw mullahs tote a framed painting of Mogtaba. Then later I saw them tote in the cardboard cut-out. My stupid brain reached the conclusion that these must have been two separate events, in two separate sites honoring the Comatose Cleric.
I even insisted to toby, I think, that the cardboard cut-out was very real.
Well... here's the thing, guys: i don't know if you picked up on this, but I'm not very smart.
Update to Old Dominion story: Yes, it was yet another Muslim Cultural Enrichment Officer.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
Multiple federal sources confirm to @FoxNews
that the suspected ODU shooter is Mohamed Jalloh, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone who was convicted in 2017 of providing support to ISIS. He was released in December 2024. Here's what DOJ said after his arrest in 2016:
"Jalloh praised the gunman who killed five U.S. military members in a terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 2015, and stated that he had been thinking about conducting an attack similar to the November 2009 attack at Ft. Hood, Texas."
🚨 SLEEPER CELL ACTIVATED? Old Dominion University shooter ID'd as Mohamed Jalloh — former Army National Guardsman, convicted in 2016 for attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone, released from federal prison in 2024, under JOE BIDEN. pic.twitter.com/G0V9cSKAZJ
TERRORIST SHOOTS UP OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY UPDATE: Confirmed, the Terrorist Is an ISIS Member Released from Prison by... Joe Biden
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Have you had enough Muslim Cultural Enrichment yet?
Sorry, I completely missed this. Sometimes my Twitter feed just fills up with stuff that I have previously shown an interest in, and does not alert me to new news.
RedWave Press
@RedWavePress
BREAKING: A gunman is dead after opening fire in Constant Hall on the Old Dominion University campus Thursday morning in Norfolk, Virginia.
Two people were injured and taken to a local hospital.
WAVY10: "ODU sophomore Logan Hayes was in Constant Hall taking a test when the active shooter situation started. He said the fire alarm went off and he ran out of the building."
"As soon as he got outside, Logan told WAVY, 'I heard about a multitude of gunshots go off and people just screaming.'"
Karol Markowicz
@karol
News: I'm reliably informed that the alleged attacker of Old Dominion in is Mohamed Jalloh, the same Jalloh who was previously convicted of providing support to ISIL.
Look, I'm done being polite. Supposedly most Muslims are "mostly peaceful." Fine. But the "mostly peaceful Muslims" do not bring nearly enough to the table to make up for the murders and mayhem committed by the less-than-mostly peaceful ones.
I will not live in a society where I can be murdered at any moment by a seventh century cult fanatic just to prove how #Woke I am and how tolerant I can be of my own oppressors.
If anyone wants to disprove this, please run the numbers on the incredible economic and cultural benefits we receive from Muslim invaders that outweigh the fact that we have had to entirely reconfigure our lives in order to accommodate them and mitigate their propensity to mass murder.
Update to previous Muslim terrorism story:
@BrandonStraka
Crews reportedly discovered a "LARGE amount of EXPLOSIVES" inside the vehicle that crashed into a Michigan synagogue.
Police say the suspect is d*ad and teams are working to safely clear the car. It could have been far worse.
thanks to weft-cut loop.
UPDATE: I don't know what the circumstances of Mohammed Jalloh's release were. But he was released during Biden's term.
He was a naturalized citizen. He should have been denaturalized and deported, but wasn't.
🚨 SLEEPER CELL ACTIVATED? Old Dominion University shooter ID'd as Mohamed Jalloh — former Army National Guardsman, convicted in 2016 for attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Naturalized citizen from Sierra Leone, released from federal prison in 2024, under JOE BIDEN. pic.twitter.com/G0V9cSKAZJ
RAW FOOTAGE: NORFOLK POLICE SWARM ODU ACTIVE SHOOTER SUSPECT
The response time here is absolute textbook. While an active shooter situation triggered mass panic at Old Dominion University, heavily armed Norfolk police officers instantly swarmed and neutralized the threat on the… pic.twitter.com/2jQseRKthT
The shooter is now dead and they're still hiding his name which casts a slight amount of doubt on my guess that he's a straight white conservative male.
A gunman was shot and killed Thursday afternoon after ramming a truck into a West Bloomfield Synagogue, according to the Associated Press.
The incident happened at the Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, where smoke was seen billowing from the roof.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said Temple security fired shots at at least one person after the crash.
There were no other injuries in the shooting.
Police are also looking into whether anyone else was involved in the incident and asked those within one mile of the synagogue to shelter in place.
All children who were removed from the school will be placed at the Jewish Community Center for reunification with their parents.
The Jewish Federation of Detroit ordered all Jewish organizations to go into lockout protocol.
— 🇺🇸 America First Feed (@America1stFeed) March 12, 2026
🚨 DEVELOPING: CAR CRASHES INTO JEWISH SYNAGOGUE IN MICHIGAN - ACTIVE SHOOTER REPORTED
• Vehicle deliberately driven into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, officials say • Reports indicate shots were fired after the crash • The vehicle caught fire after striking the… pic.twitter.com/lAtCANZZb5
Wajahat Ali says: “My family and everyone I know in Pakistan no longer wants to come to America thanks to Trump. Pakistanis are staying home!” pic.twitter.com/XSe3gw91r1
Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), claimed in an interview published Monday that millions of people could potentially be falsely enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans.
In January, early ACA enrollment figures indicated a drop following four consecutive years of record growth, going from 23.6 million enrollees to 22.8 million from the same time last year. Signs-ups were expected to fall after Republicans let enhanced premium tax subsidies expire at the end of 2025.
In an interview NBC News, Oz said some people on ACA plans should not be enrolled and expects the rate of enrollment will continue to fall to somewhere around 19 million.
"In fact, the fact that we have 23 million makes me think we have too many participants in the ACA," Oz told the outlet. "It's too high of a number."
Oz said he believes some signs-ups are the result of fraud or mistakes.
"Either their income would not qualify them, they made too much or made too little, or they didn't file the forms, maybe on purpose, or they were duplicately enrolled in Medicaid or more likely other states' ACAs," he added. "These are major concerns for us."
Experts who spoke with NBC News said that while fraud is certainly present in the ACA Marketplace, numbers given out by the administration are likely overstated.
Mehmet Oz is both a medical doctor and the adminstrator for Medicaid and Medicare but he's not an "expert." Only Democrat party flacks are "experts."
There are two kinds of people in the world, "experts" and Republicans.
As I guessed, the new phase of the war is anti-personnel strikes on street enforcers and IRGC goons not with 1,000 pound bombs but with hand-grenade-sized charges delivered by drones.
Apparently this ran with video supposedly showing the strike, but the video was from March 2nd. Open Source Intelligence says that although the video was fake (or repurposed from an earlier strike), the report is real.
The drones loiter for hours looking for targets to hit.
Des drones de type munitions rôdeuses semblent désormais opérer au-dessus de Téhéran.
Plus de 10 checkpoints ainsi que plusieurs véhicules militaires mobiles du CGRI (IRGC) dans différentes zones de la ville auraient été ciblés et détruits par des frappes de drones. (@etelaf10)… pic.twitter.com/g0sBMZgIW7
Loitering munition-type drones now appear to be operating over Tehran.
More than 10 checkpoints, as well as several mobile IRGC (IRGC) military vehicles in different areas of the city, are said to have been targeted and destroyed by drone strikes. (@etelaf10)
This type of weapon can patrol for a long time over an area, wait for targets to appear, and then strike. This is all the easier when enemy air defense systems are degraded or neutralized.
This could facilitate the emergence of a broader national uprising, by weakening the regime's control at the street level.
In addition to just killing Basij and IRGC troops, these hunter-killers will also force Iranian street troops to break up into smaller groups, in order to make themselves less conspicuous and attractive targets. But moving in smaller groups will open them up to attacks by lightly-armed counter-revolutionary irregulars, who hopefully will enter the fight by the end of the month.
I sure hope someone's smuggling in small arms, radios, and grenades to the locals.
IRGC-affiliated Fars News confirms Israeli drones targeted checkpoints across Tehran on Wednesday evening, saying that several security personnel and Basij members were killed. https://t.co/4dm7jmgGFz
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) March 11, 2026
Look at me, I'm a Smart Military Blogger (TM)!!!
Always trust wild-ass guesses from Ace. I'm like a race- and gender-swapped Candace Owens, only not a malevolent retard seething with racist jealousy that a white girl landed Charlie Kirk.
The thoroughly discredited and, frankly impossible goal of America's recent wars have been to create some form of benign Jeffersonian democracy to replace evil, despotic, murderous regimes. It didn't work, and the template from World War II, Japan and Germany, ignores the obvious...that those cultures were industrious, nationalistic, valued education, and had been absolutely destroyed. The slate had been wiped clean, so reconstruction of the governments was relatively simple.
But Iraq and Afghanistan were savage, backward, tribalistic countries whose self-governance, as it were, was based on Islamic doctrine or even more ancient: family and clan over all others. Their cultures were, to put it gently, not particularly well suited to function in the modern world of individual liberty and autonomy. So the efforts...the unimaginably bloody and expensive efforts failed miserably. And because we were fixated on being a gentle invader, the people of those countries never learned to fear us, and were never really beaten the way Japan and Germany were!
Luckily we have an administration that is less enamored of the idea of America as an engine of social change, and one that is more interested in defending our and our allies' interests. And those interests are clear: prevent the Mullahs from continuing to dominate the Persian Gulf, and prevent them and their Armageddon fantasy from coming to fruition via nuclear weapons.
The goals, as repeatedly stated by the Secretary of War, are simple:
Destroy or severely degrade Iran's missile forces, military infrastructure, and command systems that threaten American forces and regional allies, while also preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Deter further attacks against the United States and partners such as Israel and the Gulf states, and to reduce Iran's ability to project military power in the region.
These objectives are meant to remain limited and that the United States is not officially pursuing regime change in Iran.
That is a massive shift from just a few years ago, and it is a welcome one. The blood of American servicemen is too valuable to waste on arrogant notions of creating a new world order based on Western principles that are alien to the majority of the world. The focus of this war is the defense of our long-term safety and security, and it is glaringly obvious that Iran as currently constructed is a huge impediment to that, and in fact threatens the entire world!
So...to answer the question: Winning in Iran means degrading their war-making capacity down to nothing, so they cannot threaten their neighbors and world commerce. It means destroying their nuclear program so that rebuilding it would take many, many years.
And we are approaching that success. Will it take another week or another month? Who knows? And on the way to those achievable goals we are degrading the internal security apparatus of the Mullahs in such a way that the people of Iran have a better chance of overthrowing them and rebuilding their government...but in their own image! No externally imposed government that is doomed to failure.
And most of all, no boots on the ground to enforce our image of what Iran should be. That is up to the people of Iran, and I wish them the best of luck!
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Podcast: CBD and Sefton discuss the obvious incompatibility of Islam with free societies, John Bolton is a disloyal sleaze, The SAVE Act is in the muck of Senate RINOs, the crappy quality of anti-American propaganda, and more!
Some people liked Candace Owens because she was a black woman who told hard truths about BLM and black criminality. But this was always a grift. She started out as a race hustler for a grift, then hustled race the other way to grift conservatives, and now she's back to being a race-hustler for the left again. Specifically, she is now claiming that people pointing out that she is legitimately low-IQ and can't pronounce half the words her AI-generated teleprompter script points out to her is racist and just Ben Shapiro's way of saying the n-word without quite saying it. You see, you can only say that black people are smart, and if you see a dumb one that doesn't know how to pronounce simple words while she poses as an investigatory journalist, you have to pretend she's actually smart or you're a racist. Weird, that doesn't sound very conservative, let alone "#Based," to me. To prove how much she hates racism, she then says that Ben Shapiro's Jew ancestors were masters of the slave trade.
Ami Kozak: Every single Tucker Carlson episode consists of him claiming he didn't say the things he said in the last episode Also: this is the manipulation Tucker does that i hate the most. It's so cowardly. All he does is smear people (and Jews, generally), and then claim "I have nothing against [the person or group I just smeared.]" He'll even claim "I love [x], actually." Just again and again and again. It's all a lie, of course. A year ago he smeared Jews but added how beautiful he thought Israel was, and then two weeks ago, he said Israel is ugly as dog-shit and nothing beautiful has been built there "since 1948." Just got this email from Dracula: "I love Van Helsing, actually, he's one of my personal heroes, if I'm being honest. I will claw the heart out of his belly and bathe in his blood before the children of Babylon, but I have nothing but respect for Van Helsing, actually. Love is the answer. Except for the followers of the Christ whom I am commanded to turn into my dark army of Satan. And I totally don't worship Satan, I just think we should listen to both sides. Hugs and kisses, may Van Helsing burn in the blood-red fires of hell throughout eternity, even though I consider him a close and dear friend, Vlad called Dracul."
