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Tom Paine retweeted
Exclusive 💣
Liverpool have agreed personal terms with Lamine Camara.
Liverpool are trying to negotiate a deal for around £58m. Talks ongoing with Monaco. #LFC
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All class. This is how it’s done!
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has awarded the soldier who reprimanded him and members of his staff at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier a Joint Service Commendation Medal. cnn.it/4jcjn7Q
Tom Paine retweeted
Being a black man with an IQ over 130 and forced to interact with median blacks has to be an absolute living hell.
BREAKING 🚨: Kmele Foster: “It's one thing to not think capitalism isn't working, ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “How is it not?”
Kmele Foster: “I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty. The idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy.”
Jemele Hill: “Do you think capitalism has always worked that way?”
Kmele Foster: “I’ve actually just described the basic facts of the economics.”
Hill: “That ain't how it's always worked.”
Kmele Foster: “Slavery is an institution that is older than writing. It predates capitalism. The notion that white supremacy and all these other things are bound up with capitalism in an intrinsic and fundamental way is so absurd and laughable, it barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “How was it absurd?”
Kmele Foster: “It barely needs to be defended.”
Jemele Hill: “What do you mean it barely needs to be defended?”
Kmele Foster: “You actually have to articulate what the connections is. How are these two things the same? I'm talking about private property, the right to exchange and sell with whomever you like. What does that have to do with white supremacy?… What is the white supremacy dynamic of private property?”
Tom Paine retweeted
Dear @LeaderJohnThune,
Why did you BLOCK Trump's recess appointments?
Why are there 700+ bills waiting in the Senate?
Why did you take MONTHS-LONG vacations?
Did you pass the SAVE AMERICA Act?
Did defund the Taliban?
No, you didn't.
You failed the American people, miserably.
Tom Paine retweeted
If you are confused how John Thune just became Senate minority leader…
Imagine your party gets hammered in the midterms, losing at least seven Senate seats to the Democrats and the majority along with it, and instead of stopping to ask what went wrong, Senate Republicans walk into a closed-door room just one week later, shut out the very voters who sent them there, and come back out with the EXACT SAME leader, because when Ron Johnson, Rick Scott, Mike Lee and others begged for a little more time so members could lay out a real vision for the party, the delay was voted down 31-15 in a private tally we only know about from anonymous sources, and then, with no challenger and no recorded vote, Thune kept his job by acclamation, and the rest of the leadership team stayed almost entirely unchanged, as if nothing happened, as if millions of Republican voters didn't just watch their majority crumble, as if "accountability" is something Washington demands of everyone except itself, so now the SAME people who led us into the minority get to lead us through it, Republican voters still don't know how their own senators voted on the delay, and we're all just supposed to nod along and trust the process and feckless, worthless people that put us here in the first place, which is exactly why so many of us are FURIOUS tonight.
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Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not.
Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential).
The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he's most correct: repositioning forces away from Europe/Ukraine and reorganizing the general officer corps.
This isn't about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon.
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🚨 BREAKING: SecWar Pete Hegseth is now getting a MASSIVE groundswell of support nationwide after his historic early morning press conference where he dismantled Thomas Massie and Democrats’ attempt to impeach him
Patriots are rising up in favor of Pete!
A FLURRY of GOP officials are pushing to DESTROY the Impeachment Articles.
Pete said he’s pushing forward and putting the troops first no matter what.
He’s handling this like a PRO 🇺🇸
🤖 Made with AI
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🚨 JUST IN: Katie Miller just QUIT her job at SpaceX and SOLD her shares so her husband, new White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, can work on AI, space, and more without restrictions — The Atlantic
PATRIOT. Public service! 🇺🇸
The White House says Stephen is no longer recused from AI, space, and Paramount issues. Katie also exited her Paramount contract over the weekend
Stephen had stepped back from those issues because of Katie's work and stock tied to Elon Musk's xAI, which merged into SpaceX
Now there's nothing left for the media to complain about! Other than how EFFECTIVE Stephen is 😅
Katie gave up a big payday so Stephen can go all in on President Trump's agenda.
THAT is a power couple putting America First 🇺🇸
@KatieMiller @StephenM
Tom Paine retweeted
I wonder if Scott Galloway realizes that whatever he does from here on out, whatever books he writes or whatever academic heights he reaches, he is forever now still going to be known as the guy who pooped in his own car. On purpose.
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🚨 BREAKING: SecWar Pete Hegseth infuriates leftist academics, hereby declaring 33 DIRECTIVES in ONE FELL SWOOP to destroy anti-war fighter infiltration of US military schools
The Dems said "we're impeaching you," and PETE IS FULL-STEAM AHEAD!
"At my direction I'm announcing 33 new directives a complete overhaul to reform our Department of War Senior Service Colleges. To forge leaders of unmatched competence, sound moral judgment, and resolute warrior ethos."
"That memo and those 33 directives will be arriving in your inbox TODAY." 🔥
"Effective immediately — there'll be no more 80 page theoretical written theses as the primary capstone of War College achievement. In its place, we are establishing competitive SI-assisted wargaming and high-stress decision-forcing scenarios as the centerpiece of senior officer evaluation."
This sounds awesome.
This didn't come out of nowhere:
- SecWar launched a 90-day Senior Service College Task Force to review the curriculum, professors and administrators at the Army, Naval, Air and Marine Corps War Colleges and National Defense University
- A draft memo obtained by CBS News called for a "line-by-line" review of every course and an end to civilian faculty tenure
- He already rolled out the Joint Warfighter Evaluation, a battlefield-style wargaming test for colonels and Navy captains up for their first star
Warfighters, NOT WOKE. WE NEEDED THIS
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Circa 2006, a Muslim man brings the body of his daughter in a wheelbarrow to the gates of the larger FOB that supplies our outpost.
He tells the gate guards that US forces killed her accidentally when we dropped bombs on the wrong location. It happens, but not often.
Long story short, the US Military does a full investigation because we actually take this shit seriously. Our JTAC and the pilot involved are both required to cease operations and go to Kandahar (KAF) for an interview with authorities.
It takes about five or six weeks before he returns and our Commander gets the report...
The investigation found that the girl's body was burned and mutilated post mortem, that she had died from blunt force trauma to the head.
Furthermore, she was not his daughter. She was his wife. I guess there was probably about a 30yr age difference. She must've been no more than 12yrs old, from what I was told.
Finally, his homestead is near the site we dropped the ordinance on, but it was not within a dangerous proximity of the impact site. The ordinance was dropped off-target, for sure. But still hundreds of meters away from his home.
Turns out the authorities immediately involved in the whole thing could tell this was bullshit from the beginning because the girl was clearly beaten, she smelled like a wood fire and not a chemical one which would be expected with phosphorus, the bomb wasn't incendiary in any way, and the off-target drop had already been reported and inspected using GPS and they knew it hadn't destroyed his home as he'd claimed.
Still, the Commander at that base authorized thousands of dollars worth of local currency to be given to the man before he left without the body of the girl he claimed was his daughter. He literally dumped it off the road in front of the gate, which is how our guys got ahold of it and got the surgeon's opinion on her wounds.
That same guy was later captured during a raid in another location. He was working with the Taliban, and we only made the connection because he began shouting about how we killed his daughter.
Muslims cannot be trusted.
Tom Paine retweeted
JUST IN: Sources tell me that John Thune is actively campaigning to stop Marsha Blackburn from naming Rep. Tim Burchett as her replacement in the U.S. Senate. Thune does not want Burchett anywhere near the Senate chamber. And that's what makes Burchett the perfect choice! @timburchett
Tom Paine retweeted
If someone killed Dave Chapelle for speaking his mind, I wouldn't feel better. But even if I would, I wouldn't say so. Some ugly thoughts are far better left unsaid. Dave Chapelle has made the world an uglier place by saying what he never should have said. I hope he sees that.
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Nah man. I’m not gonna let this go unchecked. As a GWOT veteran I can’t.
I listened to Massie drone through his articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and I recognized the sickness immediately.
We fought under this ridiculous worldview during GWOT, and it cost us dearly.
Massie is merely an acolyte of the bloodless bureaucratic religion that puts the lawyer in the center of the kill chain, treats every American use of force like a moral emergency, and somehow always finds more sympathy for the enemy being hunted than for the American sent to hunt him.
His whole speech I began wondering who he actually was speaking for, and that’s not good.
GWOT vets know EXACTLY where that road leads. Another approval. Another review. Another JAG opinion. Another commander afraid to make a decision because one bad headline will destroy his career faster than losing the fight ever could.
We were lectured for years about “courageous restraint.” We were told that killing one enemy might create ten more. We were taught to fear our own lethality while the enemy studied our hesitation.
And then we spent twenty years bleeding into the fucking sand.
So spare me the sermon about how dangerous it is to remove lawyers who think their job is to become a veto point over command. Spare me the sudden reverence for process from people who watched Afghanistan collapse, watched thirteen Americans die at Abbey Gate, watched the Taliban retake Kabul, and somehow found no constitutional apocalypse worthy of impeachment then.
Now the outrage is that the machine is actually being used. That commanders are expected to command. And that enemies are being treated like…. actual enemies for once.
That civilian leadership is telling the bureaucracy to get the hell out of the way of lawful military action.
From where I sit, the betrayal isn’t that Washington finally found some aggression for a chang. The realest betrayal is that men like Massie still think the lesson of the GWOT was that we needed more hesitation.
No. WE NEEDED MORE VICTORY.
And I’m done pretending those are the same thing. We’re all done with it. Massie is dead wrong here, he knows it, you know it, and I know it.
Sincerely,
-A seriously disgruntled GWOT vet who knows Hegseth is the cure to what ails our military here.
Breaking News: Congressman Thomas Massie is reading Articles of Impeachment against @SecWar Pete Hegseth on the House floor now.
Watch here: youtube.com/live/3EmwC0QQ8f8…
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The Left has begun to unleash a campaign of vengeance on @elonmusk. But did they even think this through?! Because it won’t end well for them.
Last Saturday, two chartered party buses, funded by a network of left-wing non-profits, rolled up right in front of Elon’s house. They danced in the street for an hour and hit a Cybertruck piñata. But wait... aren’t these the same leftists that were insisting just last week that Elon was buying the election? Maybe they were celebrating that they were wrong.
Then you have NYU Professor Scott Galloway. He went on stage and boasted to a crowd about taking a dump in the passenger seat of his own Tesla before selling it. I can guarantee Elon wasn’t hurt by that. The only people affected by his “protest” were whoever bought that car from him and whoever had to clean up that mess.
And now, there’s incoming Texas governor Gina Hinojosa. She’s already pressuring state agencies to hold off on SpaceX land deals right next to Starbase until she takes office.
And of course, there’s half of Congress that’s threatening to sue him into oblivion.
I have a serious question for all these people: How do you think this will end?
Elon is a trillionaire with a rocket company. If Texas tries to shut him down, he’ll just move to another state. If Congress tries to make his life a living hell, he’ll move to any other country that wants his businesses and innovations. I’m sure Argentina would love for him to build there.
And if the whole world turns on him, there’s always space.
When government power and mob tactics get unfairly weaponized against builders like Elon, they leave. But guess what happens after that? Because it’s even worse for our country.
The next builder doesn’t come. If the Democrats make an example out of Elon because of his political stances, it tells all future innovators that they’re not safe here. Not unless they fall fully in line... kind of like fascism.
Tom Paine retweeted
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is under attack—and it’s by Republicans! For the life of me, I don’t know why Republicans eat each other. I believe the real reason they are coming after Secretary Hegseth is because he has taken on the anti-God, woke, and DEI initiatives that the Biden administration had pushed down the throats of our military. Since Secretary Hegseth has been at the Pentagon, he’s been cleaning house—and millions of Americans are grateful. I encourage everyone to pray for him, that God would give him strength for this difficult hour. @SecWar
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After both midterm & presidential elections, staffers are left without jobs.
All operations evaporate & they usually don’t pick up until the summer before an election — if you’re lucky.
@EarlyVoteAction is keeping on our original staff & treating campaigning w/ a 24/7/365 mindset.
Even during winter 2026, we will continue our work on the ground recruiting volunteers, registering voters at gun shows, & building for 2027.