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President Trump and Xi Jinping laughing together over the Biden autopen portrait has to be the HIGHLIGHT of the day so far 🤣🔥
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The Dicksy Chicks!! I didn't make that up but I'm laughing so hard I'm crying!!!😂😂😂
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Without The Hustler (65 years old today), Paul Newman would never have won an Oscar for Best Actor. When The Hustler arrived at the 34th Academy Awards with nine nominations, Newman’s "Fast" Eddie Felson was hailed as a masterpiece. He won the BAFTA and critics’ prizes worldwide. But the Academy passed him over, giving Best Actor to Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg. Throughout his career, Newman earned defining nominations for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Absence of Malice, and The Verdict, and lost every time. By the mid-1980s, the “Newman has never won” storyline had become an embarrassment for Hollywood and the Academy. Fast (Eddie)-forward 25 years: Newman pushes for a sequel, The Color of Money. Recruits the hottest director in town (Scorsese) and the biggest young star (Cruise), and gives the Academy a ready-made narrative. Because audiences and voters already had decades of attachment to Eddie Felson, Newman didn’t need to “introduce” the character again. In The Color of Money, Eddie is older, sober, weary, and mentoring Cruise’s cocky prodigy. The contrast between Eddie’s ferocity in The Hustler and his hard-earned wisdom in the sequel created a legacy the Academy couldn’t ignore: one performance spread across two films, 25 years apart. The Color of Money was a major critical and commercial success. The Academy, keenly aware of what they’d denied him for The Hustler (and so much else), overwhelmingly voted Newman the Oscar. The statue was awarded for The Color of Money, but it was earned at the pool tables of The Hustler.
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NEW SHORT FILM— Propaganda Warfare: Israel, Hamas & the Weaponization of the Narrative
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“If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.” This is what Churchill said when he was asked how he could possibly justify helping the Russians in their war in 1941. Churchill had “one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose”: destroying Hitler and the Nazi regime. Anyone fighting Hitler would therefore receive British aid. The Left divides the world into the oppressed and the oppressors. The oppressed are in an eternal struggle against the oppressor. Islam divides the world into Muslims and infidels. Muslims are in an eternal war against the infidels. Palestine and Israel are the symbols. Palestine is the theater of Muslim jihad against the infidels. Palestine is the oppressed struggle against the oppressor. For the Left, the powerful are corporations, police, borders, Western governments, capitalism, and America. And for them, violence is resistance. Lawbreaking is desperation. Borders are exclusion. Defeat is oppression. The Left, for Muslims, is what Stalin was to Churchill, but the West, to Islam, is what Hitler was to Churchill. That’s why Islam lends its symbol to the Left, aiding it in accomplishing its aim. Palestine is a whore that is married to Islam, but Islam doesn’t mind anyone riding it as long as it serves it. Islam has “one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose”: taking over the West. Anyone weakening the West would therefore receive Islamic aid.
An anti-AI protest outside Google’s offices today. Note the presence of a Palestinian flag. Can someone please explain the alignment between the Palestinian and anti-AI protestors?
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Replying to @theMRC
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Macklemore and his band go to Gaza
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Greenland: President Trump Outmaneuvered Globalism and Reclaimed the Hemisphere The geopolitical chessboard has been permanently rewritten, and the architects of managed American decline are staring into the abyss of their own irrelevance. Donald Trump has executed the one of the most significant territorial and security consolidation since the purchase of Alaska in 1867. By finalizing an infinite-term security agreement over Greenland, the United States has officially established an immovable strategic garrison at the apex of the globe. While the corporate press and the progressive foreign policy establishment spent years sneering at the proposal, dismissing Arctic sovereignty as an eccentric real estate fantasy, Trump methodically forced Copenhagen to the table. The United States now holds absolute veto power over adversarial access, permanent basing rights, and full authority over Greenlandic security at zero cost to the American taxpayer. Moscow is decisively locked out of the vital maritime corridors of the North Atlantic. Beijing is permanently evicted from Arctic rare earth deposits and stripped of its Polar Silk Road ambitions. The American homeland is shielded beneath an expanding Golden Dome missile defense umbrella. This represents pure, unapologetic realpolitik executed with surgical precision, demonstrating that national greatness is forged through raw leverage and resolute will. Examine the psychological disintegration of the American left as this triumph materializes. Their reaction provides a textbook autopsy of ideological decay. For nearly a decade, liberal commentators ridiculed the strategic acquisition of Arctic territory, mocking the vision on late-night comedy platforms and writing haughty essays regarding international decorum. Now that the pact is signed, their arrogant condescension has curdled into bitter panic. The modern progressive rejects strategic interest, national survival, and civilizational vitality. The left operates on a singular, diseased reflex: whenever an action fortifies the United States, they condemn it; whenever a policy degrades American sovereignty, they celebrate it. Their sudden, feigned concern for Danish sensitivities is entirely fraudulent. These are the very same ideologues who applauded the systematic dissolution of our southern border, begged multinational climate summits to dictate domestic energy consumption, and drained our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to mask domestic inflation. Their outrage reveals the terror of a parasitic managerial class watching hard power dismantle their utopian illusions. Consider the profound humiliation of Canada, an entity that represents the most pathetic spectacle in modern statecraft. Ottawa operates as a disarmed protectorate masquerading as an enlightened moral superpower. For generations, the Canadian political establishment has indulged in anti-American sanctimony solely because the United States military guarantees their territorial survival. Canada spent decades gutting its defense budgets, allowing its navy to rust, neglecting its vast northern frontier, and lecturing Washington on carbon footprints while freeloading under the American nuclear umbrella. Look at the map today. With Alaska anchoring the northwest, the continental United States sealing the southern frontier, and Greenland now under permanent American military command to the northeast, Canada is entirely encircled. The northern border they neglected has become an American defensive moat. Instead of partnering in continental security, Canadian bureaucrats chose obstructionism, whining about sovereignty while Chinese research vessels probed the Arctic waters at their doorstep. Canada is now a dependency trapped within an American fortress, helplessly pretending that moral platitudes will shield them from global adversaries. Equally pathetic is the progressive demand for subservience to the European Union. Brussels represents a sclerotic, regulatory mausoleum that demands total obedience while offering zero defensive credibility. Submitting to that corrupt supranational apparatus means accepting endless economic strangulation, suicidal net-zero energy mandates, and open borders, all in exchange for stagnant growth and a military apparatus that cannot secure its own coastlines. Brussels produces bureaucratic directives while producing zero deterrence. European Commission officials paraded through Greenland offering nominal aid packages, attempting to bind the island to European climate regulations. Trump obliterated that entire bureaucratic charade with a single stroke. Copenhagen understood that when Russian nuclear submarines navigate Arctic waters, European declarations on emissions targets offer zero protection against an aggressive superpower. Denmark bypassed the dithering halls of Brussels and surrendered security authority to Washington because real power respects only weapons, territory, and resolve. Greenland constitutes an integral component of a sweeping, calculated restoration of hemispheric dominance. The left predicted that Trump's assertive posture would provoke global catastrophe, yet his administration dismantled hostile anti-American outposts across the Western Hemisphere with ruthless speed. Operation Absolute Resolve decapitated the criminal regime in Caracas, dragging Nicolas Maduro into federal custody, liquidating a hostile cartel bridgehead, and securing direct control over vast petroleum reserves without bogging American forces down in a protracted nation-building quagmire. The Bolivarian socialist experiment that starved its own citizens now lies crushed beneath American power. With Venezuela reclaimed and Greenland secured, Havana is rapidly running out of oxygen. The decrepit communist regime ninety miles from Florida is choking under total isolation, stripped of its South American oil subsidies and terrified of an administration that treats Marxist dictatorships as existential targets for liquidation. Trump is systematically enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, driving hostile foreign influence from our hemisphere, and constructing an impregnable fortress that will dictate global power dynamics for the next century. This uninterrupted chain of geopolitical victories renders the upcoming midterm elections an open-and-shut verdict. The legacy media apparatus and the Democratic Party are in a state of terminal collapse, desperately attempting to manipulate voters through short-term economic hysteria. They flood the airwaves with lamentations over fuel prices, attempting to convince citizens that global logistics fluctuations outweigh the permanent defense of the republic. A genuine American patriot never barters national survival, territorial supremacy, and the security of his children for temporary fuel costs. Real patriots recognize that the left offers nothing except managed decay, open borders, urban collapse, and ideological subversion. The left expects Americans to hand the keys of power to domestic Marxists simply because shipping costs fluctuated during a global realignment. That calculation is dead wrong. The American populace recognizes that an administration securing the Arctic perimeter, crushing hostile foreign dictators, and restoring domestic manufacturing is building an enduring civilization. The Greenland agreement guarantees Trump an unassailable mandate, exposing his political opposition as petty saboteurs who would celebrate American vulnerability simply to hurt a conservative president. Having lost every strategic argument on foreign soil, the progressive apparatus has launched a desperate domestic campaign against American technological dominance. Observe their coordinated, hysterical attacks on artificial intelligence and data center infrastructure. The same ideological faction that demanded our industrial base abandon reliable power for wind turbines is suddenly crying about the strain on the electric grid. They publish breathless exposés regarding water usage, computing emissions, and computational power demands, weaponizing environmental litigation to halt the construction of modern server facilities. Reject this fraudulent panic entirely. The progressive establishment possesses zero genuine concern for the stability of our electrical grid. They spent decades blowing up coal infrastructure and blocking zero-emission nuclear plants. Their hostility toward artificial intelligence stems exclusively from the fact that Donald Trump champions American computational dominance. The moment conservative leadership recognized computing power, dedicated energy production, and advanced machine intelligence as vital pillars of national strength, the left immediately declared them an environmental menace. They would happily forfeit the future of technology to Beijing, allowing the Chinese Communist Party to monopolize artificial intelligence, simply to obstruct an economic boom under conservative governance. This psychological defect remains the defining characteristic of modern progressivism: an incurable, parasitic envy that prefers national ruin over conservative triumph. The modern left represents a bitter aristocracy of decline, people who inherited the greatest superpower in human history and attempted to dissolve it into an apologetic, borderless administrative zone. Donald Trump operates on the ancient, unbending principles that built empires. He understands that sovereignty is seized through audacity, cemented through infrastructure, and protected through overwhelming strength. By securing the Arctic bastions of Greenland, surrounding and neutralizing the Canadian establishment, crushing the socialist axis in South America, and unleashing unconstrained technological innovation, he is fortifying this nation for generations. History will remember President Trump as the visionary leader who fortified the American republic against all adversaries. The left will be remembered as a pathetic, whining faction that championed surrender and was utterly crushed by the march of American strength.
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Free Palestine is the dumbest political slogan in history. The people who repeat it don’t understand the conflict, and have no idea what they’re talking about. Their ignorance is so profound that to call them simply misinformed would be to pay them a compliment. Israel is not the aggressor. ‘Palestine’ is. Religiously mandated Islamic Jew hatred is the cause of the conflict. The Muslims don’t want freedom. Freedom is un-Islamic. They want to kill Jews. They don’t want their own state. They’ve had multiple opportunities, and they’ve rejected it every time. Israel gave them Gaza in 2005 for the promise of peace, uprooting thousands of Israelis from their homes. The Muslims could have turned it into a tourist paradise and a glittering jewel on the Mediterranean coast. Instead, they turned it into a terror hub and started raining down Iranian missiles on Israeli civilians. They spent the billions they received in aid to build terror tunnels from which to attack civilians. If these savages ever got their own state (which they won’t, thank God) the last thing it would be is free. It would be an Islamic hellhole run like Gaza is run today, with summary executions and routine torture of anyone who steps out of line. Anyone suspected of being gay would be thrown from a rooftop to their death and their body dragged through the street behind a motorcycle. Israel is the good guy in this conflict. One day you ‘Free Palestine’ morons will wake up and realise that, and you’ll cringe at the people you are now.
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James Woods just posted this video and disabled reposts 👀 Dare you to watch without laughing out loud!
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HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve... My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
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New Daily Wire ‘Infidels’ film exposes absurdity of ‘Queers for Palestine’ as an Islamic terrorist throws LGBTQIA+ Palestine activists off a roof. “I’m Gay!” 🎥 @realDailyWire
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Scott Bessent just ENDED both Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg’s careers in one fell swoop. Bessent, who is gay, was asked to respond to Kamala’s recent claim that she didn’t choose Buttigieg as a running mate because he was gay. He laid out three reasons why that excuse is TOTAL nonsense: “First, it shows her emphasis on identity politics and you know, the American people moved on.” “Two, it shows how low regard she holds American people… she was a terrible candidate.” “And three, you wouldn’t pick Pete Buttigieg because he might have been worst Transportation Secretary in history.” “She judges him on his identity, his sexuality… let’s look and see whether he did a good job. Let’s look on merit, and I can tell you, on merit he’s a failure.” “And on merit, she’s a failure.” Bessent is lowkey a SAVAGE.
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Happy 73rd birthday to Robert Ray Wisdom- Maj. Howard “Bunny” Colvin on The Wire. “There's never been a paper bag for drugs...until now.” -Bunny Colvin
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Seattle drafted Vinnie Johnson seventh overall in 1979 out of Baylor, where he'd averaged 24 points a game and once dropped 50 on TCU. Two years later the Sonics traded him to Detroit, and he spent the next decade doing the same job every night. Coming off the bench. Thirteen NBA seasons and he was never the guy. He was the guy who came in when the guy needed a rest. He was spectacular at it. In the 1985 playoffs he scored 22 points in the fourth quarter against Boston. Danny Ainge came out of that game and gave him the name that stuck forever. "If that guy in Chicago is the Refrigerator, then Vinnie Johnson is the Microwave." In Game 5 of the 1990 Finals he hit a 14-footer with 0.7 seconds left to beat Portland and clinch Detroit's second straight championship. After that they called him 007 too. Two rings. 11,825 career points. Number 15 hanging in the rafters in Detroit. Total career earnings: about $6 million. His best season paid him $1.4 million, at the very end, in 1990. He retired in 1992. Three years later he started a company in Detroit that made packaging supplies for automakers. Here's what he said the point of it was. "I really wanted to get into business and create some jobs and opportunities. I wanted to do something different outside of basketball, but the main thing was giving back to the city of Detroit for all the support they have given me." General Motors gave him his break. He shifted the company from packaging into automotive assembly, which meant building whole systems for car manufacturers instead of shipping them parts in boxes. Then he just kept going. Piston Group today does more than $3 billion in annual revenue. It employs over 10,000 people across the United States, Mexico and Canada, in about three and a half million square feet of plant space. It supplies Ford, GM, Honda, Toyota and Chrysler. It is one of the largest minority-owned businesses in the world. Vinnie Johnson is worth somewhere around half a billion dollars. He made $6 million in thirteen years of professional basketball. His company now generates roughly 500 times that, every single year. And he built it in the city that watched him play, specifically so people there would have somewhere to work.
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They were perfectly comfortable condemning the lone Lindsay Clancy holdout juror right up until one inconvenient fact wandered into the room: He was Black. Then the gears started grinding. “I have to sit with that.” “That changes the landscape.” “A lot of us were assuming he was white.” Oh, really? What changed? Same juror. Same vote. Same case. Same evidence. Same dead children. Same decision. His skin color entered the chat, and suddenly the moral calculator needed a reboot. That is intersectional politics in one perfect, embarrassing little scene. These people lecture the country about justice while running every moral question through a demographic spreadsheet. Race. Sex. Sexuality. Religion. Victim ranking. Oppression points. Privilege penalties. Then, after all the boxes are checked, they finally decide who is allowed to be criticized. Apparently “right and wrong” now comes with a dropdown menu. Imagine admitting, out loud, that learning a juror was Black “changes the landscape.” You just told everyone that your judgment depended on the race of the person you were judging. Bravo. You accidentally explained the entire scam. DEI and intersectionality sell themselves as moral progress while training people to abandon universal standards the second tribal identity enters the equation. And when the tribes collide? Cue the sweating, the stammering, the “I need to sit with that.” They built a moral system so stupid it can short-circuit over a skin tone. Same facts. Different identity. Suddenly the ethics change. That is the punchline. And somehow they still want to be taken seriously. (article below)
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