I believe Putin more than any politician in Washington, D.C. or any intelligence agent. Seems to be a strange statement since Tulsi Gabbard has released information concerning the transgressions of these agencies but nothing is done to redress their crimes. She is one of the exemptions.

I cannot imagine the world if Putin was replaced in Russia with a less moderate leader. Another day living in an evil empire.

Unless TACO Trump is bluffing, the US appears poised to unleash a new series of attacks on Iran using the Strait of Hormuz as an excuse. On Sunday afternoon, Donald Trump President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the US will begin guiding foreign ships out of the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday under “Project Freedom,” calling it a humanitarian effort to assist neutral vessels stranded by the conflict. Trump warned that any interference with the operation would be met with force.

Hossein Pak, a journalist with the Resistance Front, says Tehran is preparing major actions to defeat the US siege in the Strait of Hormuz:

“The Iranian nation and the Armed Forces have the power to break the enemy’s siege in a serious way… It’s going to happen in the next few hours,” .

Blockade or no blockade, Tehran is projecting calm. The message is steady: Iran is standing strong. UKMTO reports that an oil tanker, 78 nautical miles north of Fujairah, UAE, was struck by projectiles early Monday morning Tehran time.

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Forget ExxonMobil. Forget Lockheed. Forget Facebook, Raytheon, Pfizer, BlackRock, every villain you’ve been trained to point at for the last thirty years. Those companies are dangerous the way a loaded gun on a table is dangerous — inert until somebody picks it up, and usually somebody does, and usually people die, and we write books about it afterward.

Palantir is dangerous in a category those companies don’t occupy. Palantir is the first private corporation in history that has successfully fused four things that every civilization in recorded history has kept — deliberately, and at enormous cost

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Who can argue?

You don’t have to believe this, but they do. Explains a lot.

The following illustrates the unpleasant to accept reality that the Constitution that most of us love and support is, in the words of George W. Bush, “just a goddamned piece of paper.”

There is no denying that the American constitution has repeatedly been subject to radical changes that have profoundly altered the relationship between the individual citizen and the state in some cases, and the relationship between the states and the federal government in other cases.

So, we ought to list these de facto republics as such:

First Republic (1776-1788)
Second Republic (1787-1865)
Third Republic (1865-1910)
Fourth Republic (1937- )

The old republics are gone. The constitutional order of the Jeffersonian years—i.e., the so-called “American experiment”—was swept away long ago. There is no member-state sovereignty. There are no “checks and balances.” There is simply what the federal judges say there is: a massive federal administrative state that can define for itself what are permissible federal powers and what are not.

We’re living in the Fourth American Republic. Those who speak of conserving the work of “the founding fathers” or “the American experiment” are living in a republic of the imagination alone. Many conservatives like to quote Benjamin Franklin who, upon exiting the 1787 constitution convention allegedly said that the convention had created “a republic, if you can keep it.” Well, they didn’t “keep it.” It disappeared in the nineteenth century, and what we have today is something else altogether.

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Perhaps it’s time for a Fifth Republic. What say you?

Try telling a self-evident truth, or a truth for which you have rock solid evidence to support, or a truth that you have absolute proof of to a person who believes otherwise. See what happens. You will be ridiculed, called ‘names,’ and shunned. The open-minded and critical thinker will consider, accept, and thank you for the correction. The weak minded, the one who is frightened of change, the one who’s pride will not allow admitting error, that one is weak. For them, their opinion is their truth and nothing will change it. But the truth remains the truth. For these, the only answer is to walk away. Expenditure of time and energy with them is a waste.

The tragedy of Ben Shapiro is that he knows he’s a fraud. He realized it even before he went to college, when he began to understand that he didn’t have the ability to think for himself or enough talent to accomplish anything on his own. This is why so many celebrities and “successful” people have Imposter Syndrome: they are imposters whose success is fake and manufactured. Once the funding required to maintain their pretend popularity dries up, their audience disappears because it never really existed in the first place.

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It is becoming more and more apparent that many/most of the talking head celebrities are fake. They come out of nowhere with instant ‘star’ power and receive instant media status across the spectrum. And it’s not just the likes of Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin. Consider even the conservative darlings such as Candice Owens and firebrands like Alex Jones.

There’s a ‘thing’ called controlled opposition. It is a political and social strategy where a ruling power creates, infiltrates, or co-opts groups that appear to challenge the system, effectively neutralizing genuine dissent while maintaining the illusion of multi-party competition or ideological debate.  This tactic allows authorities to play both sides of a conflict, absorbing resistance, feeding disinformation, and ensuring that no meaningful threat to the status quo emerges.

Pay attention to them all, but trust none of them.