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Winning an election in part because gas prices are higher and then turning around and claiming a mandate for embracing climate ideology.
Stifling oil and gas production will not lower energy costs.
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You didn't "run to the middle" in the midterms. You ran a campaign around JD Vance-style NatCon tariff protectionism.
And it cost you safe red state senate seats across the country.
Take the L, bud.
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While not perfect, Jordan is by far our least problematic partner in the Middle East.
Speaking of “partnership” with Iran is an insult to the memory to the 50,000 Iranians and 500,000 Syrians murdered by the regime.
Incoming U.S. Senator Abdul El-Sayed, celebrated as America’s first Muslim senator, advocates cutting aid to Egypt and Jordan, sanctioning and downgrading ties with Saudi Arabia and the UAE, while treating Iran as a potential partner rather than a strategic adversary and adopting a strikingly soft approach toward the clerical regime in Tehran. He even declined to comment on the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, reportedly mindful that some of his constituents supported the Iranian regime and its doctrine of Wilayat al-Faqih ("Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist").
This is not a serious framework for U.S. foreign policy in a volatile Middle East where long-standing partnerships remain essential to countering Iranian influence and growing pro-Russian and pro-Chinese alignment. Undermining key Arab allies while extending goodwill to the region’s foremost "revolutionary" regime reflects strategic naiveté, not realism. An Islamist-influenced foreign policy of this kind risks accelerating American retrenchment from some of the world's most critical energy, trade, and maritime chokepoints at a time when sustained U.S. engagement remains vital to its national security interests and those of its allies.
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Weirdly, I don't think the GOP shiould turn left. I think they should turn back to believing in free markets and local control and small government. But the progressive right that wears conservatism as a skin suit claims that is moving left.
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Oh jeez, not this Starlink shit again…😑
Received briefings from Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant disruptions to Starshield’s operations over the territory of Ukraine for several days now – along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). The Ukrainian military have already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but systematic speed restrictions. For us, this primarily means a significant complication in intercepting Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, there have already been strikes that got through because our interception systems cannot reach sufficient speeds and are unable to intercept in time. Unfortunately, this is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians and carry out more accurate strikes against Ukraine. We are trying to establish all the circumstances with the American side.
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“China hawks”? All we hawks are asking is for our companies and government not to sell out our country.
Biggest fallout from spy scandal engulfing Nvidia chief Jensen Huang could be in US, where China hawks are seizing on the affair to push a hard line that Trump administration put on the back burner
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I’ll just say it because apparently no other Republican will: Howard Lutnick is a threat to national security and his sons are making billions on the backs of American taxpayers, bondholders, and shareholders in way that would make Hunter Biden blush.
SCOOP: President Trump authorized a crackdown on companies suspected of diverting Nvidia's advanced AI chips to China on Thursday, but one administration official repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. axios.com/2026/11/11/trump-l…
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Howard Lutnick, who helped China get America’s advanced chips, would look good in orange.
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The limitations and reduced speeds for Starshield (military side of Starlink) have returned hindering Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. Whether it is the Executive Branch or Mr Musk, this decision leads to more Ukrainians getting killed. These actions aid the war criminal Putin. Congress must do BIG Oversight here and pinpoint responsibility. Siding with the tyrant is UnAmerican.
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The people who should sit out any discussion of winning Texas back are anyone who insisted that it was impossible for Talarico to win no matter how bad his opponent was.
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Fire Lutnick. And order the @FBI to take a look.
Secretary Lutnick literally couldn't even explain why Megaspeed isn't on the Entity List when confronted about it at an NSC meeting by Secretary Bessent. Not only does the rest of the administration not support Commerce's refusal to implement or enforce export controls, but Commerce can't even explain their lack of action when asked about it. This is beyond absurd, and needs to be investigated.
And to be clear, placing Megaspeed on the Entity List today would be way too little too late. Chinese AI chip smuggling via Southeast Asia is rampant. China would just get chips via Speedmatrix, or any of the dozens of other cutouts in Malaysia/Singapore/Thailand that already exist.
Commerce needs to enforce the existing regulations (which it has refused to enforce since May 2025) that would require a license for all AI chip shipments to Southeast Asia, and also require a license for all large-scale AI chip orders to non-trusted companies in most countries. If a sketchy company is ordering $5 billion worth of AI chips, the US government must know about it and at least have the ability to block the sale.
This is the only way to cut down on Chinese smuggling, otherwise we're just playing a game of whack-a-mole that is difficult in the best of times, and that this Commerce department has shown it is uniquely inept at.
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I spoke to a unit on Monday who told me the same thing about the 160 km/h limit for Star Shield, in particular, in occupied areas. This is affecting their middle strike drones, making them easier to intercept.
Received briefings from Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant disruptions to Starshield’s operations over the territory of Ukraine for several days now – along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). The Ukrainian military have already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but systematic speed restrictions. For us, this primarily means a significant complication in intercepting Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, there have already been strikes that got through because our interception systems cannot reach sufficient speeds and are unable to intercept in time. Unfortunately, this is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians and carry out more accurate strikes against Ukraine. We are trying to establish all the circumstances with the American side.
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The VP's team gives a ton of access to reporters and leaks to reporters in exchange for stories like this.
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Lutnick advocated the tariffs, scuttled a trade deal with Canada that sparked a pre-midterm trade war, and has been covering for a company funneling our technology to China while stalling presidential orders to curtail those transfers.
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It's a pattern. Colby is repeatedly making his own foreign and defense policy over at the Pentagon.
MAGA Deep State is quite real and quite poisonous to the American interests. Even compared to the President they are ignoring to promote their own goals.
Stunning report. At this point it seems like Howard Lutnick and Jeff Kessler are just outright defying the President's orders on export controls. The President apparently ordered Secretary Lutnick to crack down on China's access to controlled AI chips in Southeast Asia--and reportedly has ordered this three separate times--and they're just...not doing it.
Why is Lutnick refusing to act? Why is he allowing China to continue to get AI chips via Southeast Asia? At this point, Lutnick isn't just protecting Nvidia, he's straight up protecting Chinese companies--reportedly against the wishes of the President and the entire rest of the Cabinet. Is Lutnick personally benefitting from China getting access to AI chips?
This is a total breakdown inside the administration on a major national security issue. There has to be accountability for this. Congress obviously will investigate, but how is it that the President's own appointees are just refusing to execute the President's orders? I've never seen anything like this.
