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Russia: Attacking The Shadow Fleet

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/russia/202608086577.aspx#gsc.tab=0

August 8, 2026:
Two months ago, the Russian oil tanker Deliver was seized in the Mediterranean by a French warship. The Deliver was using falsified or meaningless documents and, like so many other Shadow Fleet tankers, was either underinsured or uninsured and operating under a false flag. Delivery purported to be registered in Cameroon, but wasn't. Any of those failings is illegal under maritime law and entitles any nation to seize a ship. This power was used only rarely until the US captured Venezuelan dictator Maduro and asserted these powers. In the past few months, other nations, such as Britain, France, and Germany, have also begun to do so.

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1/3 of DC judges were born in another country.  

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33% foreign born
100% had zero judicial experience before being appointed.
Why do we have foreigners ruling over Americans?

MORE HERE
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For those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about:

🚨So here's the REAL story:

Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.

Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.

It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!

THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.

Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.

So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.


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The world is crazy 

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• If a man pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.

• Somehow it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.

• Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.

• It was cool for Joe Biden to "blackmail" the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it.

• People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.

• People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.

• Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.

• Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.

• $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.

• If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.

• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.

• We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us.

• Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.

• Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it's a violation of THEIR rights.

• And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us "racists"?!

Nothing makes sense anymore, no values, no morals, no civility and people are dying of a Chinese virus, but it racist to refer to it as Chinese even though it began in China.

We are clearly living in an upside down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral, where good is evil and evil is good, where killing murderers is wrong, but killing innocent babies is right.

Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water, and is sinking fast. The choice is yours to make. What will it be? Time is short, make your choice wisely!

Feel free to copy and paste. I did.

Time for our government to wake up you either work with and for America or get the hell out .. we're tired of paying taxes and you incredibly selfish people don't give a damn for the people you work for... you should all be ashamed of yourself !!!!

http://x.com/magagrandmom/status/2082967374899069128?s=61


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The New 'They Who Must Not Be Named'

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Anybody still in here like Harry Potter?

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The New 'They Who Must Not Be Named'

http://pjmedia.com/a-j-rice/2026/07/29/the-new-he-who-must-not-be-named-n4955588#google_vignette

Every week on my podcast Dangerous Laughter, I sit down with people whose ideas deserve a hearing, whether the cultural gatekeepers approve or not. Sometimes it's a politician. Sometimes it's a journalist. Sometimes it's a historian.

This week, it was Solomon Schmidt, a gifted historian whose new biography, A Pen to Change the World: The Life of J.K. Rowling, should have been one of the easiest books in the world to promote.

Instead, it became a case study in modern publishing.

Schmidt told me that organizations serving independent bookstores declined to carry advertising for the book. Harry Potter fan communities that once celebrated every new Rowling project have shown little interest in discussing a biography of the woman who created Hogwarts. Media outlets that ordinarily jump at the chance to cover major literary releases have largely looked the other way.

Think about how absurd that is.

J.K. Rowling isn't an obscure novelist looking for her first break. She's the bestselling author of the bestselling book series in modern publishing history. Her stories have sold hundreds of millions of copies, been translated around the globe, inspired blockbuster films, and introduced an entire generation to the joy of reading.

If that resume isn't enough to justify a serious biography, what exactly is? The answer has nothing to do with literature. It has everything to do with politics.

Somewhere along the way, Rowling stopped being judged primarily as one of the world's most successful authors and became a political litmus test. For some people, her views on sex and gender now outweigh everything else she has ever written, accomplished, donated, or inspired.

You don't have to agree with Rowling to recognize what's happening here. You only have to ask a simple question. When did we stop being curious?

One of the things that struck me during my conversation with Solomon was how straightforward his motivation really was. He wasn't looking to pick a fight. He looked around and realized something that should have been obvious. How could the woman behind Harry Potter, arguably the defining literary phenomenon of the last thirty years, not already have a definitive modern biography?

Charles Dickens has biographies. William Shakespeare has biographies. J.R.R. Tolkien has biographies. C.S. Lewis has biographies.

But the author who created the most successful publishing franchise of our lifetime had somehow become too radioactive for many people even to write about. That should bother anyone who claims to love books.

As Solomon explained, understanding Rowling's life helps readers understand Harry Potter itself. Her struggles with poverty, depression, rejection, and single motherhood weren't footnotes. They shaped the stories. They gave us Harry's loneliness, the Dementors that captured depression so vividly, and the recurring lesson that courage usually comes at a personal cost.

Biography isn't an endorsement. It's an exploration. Somewhere, we've forgotten the difference.

The funny thing is, Harry Potter warned us about this long before social media existed.

Throughout the series, the Ministry of Magic spends as much time managing information as it does protecting people. The Daily Prophet becomes less interested in reporting facts than preserving approved narratives. Dolores Umbridge doesn't need to burn books. She simply decides which voices deserve to be heard and which ones deserve to disappear.

Sound familiar?

Millions of readers recognized those lessons while turning the pages of Rowling's novels. Some seem to have forgotten them the moment they closed the cover.

That brings me to my own new book, The Curse of the Bearded Lady. On the surface, it has little in common with a biography of J.K. Rowling. One is political satire. The other is literary history.

But both books ask the same question. What happens when powerful cultural institutions stop encouraging debate and start discouraging curiosity?

Unfortunately, that's the road we're traveling.

I don't expect everyone to agree with Rowling. I don't expect everyone to buy Solomon's biography. I certainly don't expect everyone to agree with me.

That's never been the point.

The point is that readers should be free to encounter ideas, arguments, and people without first receiving permission from self-appointed cultural referees. Publishing used to trust readers enough to let them make those decisions for themselves.

Now too many gatekeepers seem determined to make those choices in advance.

History has never been written exclusively about saints, and thank goodness for that. The people who change the world are usually complicated. They succeed brilliantly. They fail publicly. They contradict themselves. They evolve. That's what makes them worth studying.

J.K. Rowling is one of those figures, whether her critics like it or not.

The greatest irony of all is that Rowling spent years teaching millions of young readers to question authority, resist propaganda, and think for themselves. Harry, Hermione, and Luna never accepted an official narrative simply because someone powerful told them to.

Maybe that's the real reason her books still endure. Because they encourage independent thought.

That may be the most dangerous kind of magic left. Because somewhere along the way, "He Who Must Not Be Named" stopped being a fictional villain.

For too many people, it became the woman who imagined him.
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DEMOCRATS=DSA=COMMUNIST.

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They all share the same party platform.

Defund the Dept of War.
Defund the Police.
Do away with the Senate.
Do away with the President.
Close all prisons.
Remove our borders.
Cancel ICE and border control.
Weaken the Supreme Court
Amnesty for all.
Government owns all manufacturing/production/services.


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Re: Electric Cars Meet Economic Reality 

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...the way them EV's burn we should drop em on Iran's weapons storage facilities. Maybe drop a couple down the chimney of their hq.




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well,

they're not totally useless.

They can be used for military target practice both from the air as well as ground munitions.

When we figger out how to make one atomically powered safely then we might be on to something...

Maybe.... JMO....


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Re: Electric Cars Meet Economic Reality

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Reminds me of the news a couple years ago about the school district up north that bought a bunch of electric school busses.
They couldn’t use them in the winter because of the cold.
The solution was to build a heated bus barn to keep them in.
Imagine how much energy was needed to keep the busses warn overnight.
They also had to conserve the battery power.
A trade off between heating the interior of the bus to keep the kids warm and cutting the route shorter to keep from killing the batteries


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Electric Cars Meet Economic Reality

http://thenewamerican.com/us/tech/electric-cars-meet-economic-reality/

The electric-car industry, once deemed the unstoppable wave of the future destined to completely replace gas-driven vehicles, has run aground on the shoals of economic reality. In a counter-swell that reflects growing consumer dissatisfaction with the high price, limited range, and charging-time inconveniences of electric vehicles, automotive corporations are dramatically scaling back, or canceling altogether, EV models in development or production, and reverting to hybrid and gas-driven models.
Multiple Makers Cutting Back

The reaction began last December, with Ford’s dramatic $19.5 billion write-down of its electric-vehicle product line, discontinuing its F-150 Lightning EV version and getting rid of a next-generation electric truck and electric commercial vans in development. At the time, Ford’s Andrew Frick, head of gas- and electric-vehicle operations, said, “Rather than spending billions more on large EVs that now have no path to profitability, we are allocating that money into higher-returning areas.”

Soon thereafter, in January, GM followed suit, announcing a $6 billion write-down in EV and battery production and shifting large portions of productive capacity from EVs back to traditional gas and hybrid models.

Then came Honda, which in March announced a massive scaling back of EV manufacturing plans for the United States, including the cancellation of three EV models slated for production in North America, which resulted in at least a $9 billion loss. In addition, Honda canceled plans for an $11 billion EV battery plant for Canada.

More recently, Nissan has shelved further work on development of a fully electric version of the Qashqai (Nissan’s top-selling European car), which was to have been built in the U.K., and Porsche was forced to write off nearly $16 billion in a dramatic scaling back of its own considerable EV-related assets, which reduced its operating profit by around 98 percent.
Simply Not Feasible

All of this, and more, is reflective of a new economic climate in the automotive sector following the Trump administration’s discontinuation of the Biden-era $7,500 tax write-off offered to EV buyers, along with sundry other government incentives and subsidies designed to transform the automotive industry by destroying gas vehicles and ushering in a new age of electric and hybrid ones.

The problem is that American consumers are not impressed with the inconveniences of EVs, including their enormous cost, and in a system that remains at least nominally free market, consumers have the final say. Electric vehicles that outperform gas vehicles — and do so economically — are proving just as much of a chimera as faster-than-light travel and affordable nuclear-fusion power plants. The laws of physics do impose limits on what technology is capable of achieving, even if hubristic politicians refuse to acknowledge them.

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And, let us not forget that when things get really really cold . . . the EV's also freeze up. Zim.


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Re: What Getting Drunk

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GREAT post Zim !!

I really enjoyed that and your perspective..

Very thoughtful and kind..
THANK YOU ! Thumbs Up


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What Getting Drunk With Alzheimer’s Patients Teaches Us About America on Her 250th Birthday

http://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/07/04/what-getting-drunk-with-alzheimers-patients-teaches-us-about-america-on-her-250th-birthday-n4954660

Actually, the title is wrong: It’s more like getting drunk near Alzheimer’s patients, because for the most part, their medications (plural, of course) don’t play nicely with alcohol. But that’s okay.

They act pretty drunk anyway.

Don’t believe me? Consider this example:

Last night, we had a few people over for dinner. The World Cup was on TV. A Budweiser commercial aired (because, of course), featuring those famous Clydesdales.

“They’re such beautiful horses,” cooed my wife.

“Delicious, too!” added Alois.

My wife nearly dropped her dinner plate.

I’ve written about Alois before. He’s a pseudonym for someone close to me who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s-like symptoms a few years ago. Unfortunately, his symptoms have snowballed, so he was placed in a memory care facility. The TL/DR recap: He’s why we left Tampa Bay last month and are renting the house that’s literally next door to Alois’ new home, trading the Land of Alligators for this desolate, soulless, Mid-Atlantic hellscape of endless traffic lights and strip malls.

But the upside is, I’ve seen Alois every single day. I just walk over and say hello.

That part of the equation was expected. (Wouldn’t have moved here otherwise.) What I didn’t expect was that spending time with Alois would also mean making friends and spending time with his fellow residents.

Alois is a veteran — and he’s not the only resident, either. When four of ‘em get together for dinner, there’s something like 320 years of wisdom and experience at the table.

Meanwhile, the age of America is only 250.

Alois has personally lived through one-third of the entire American experiment. He was born closer to the death of Abraham Lincoln than the birth of Zohran Mamdani. When he was a little boy, the old men he’d see around town were Civil War veterans.

When I was a little boy, the old men were World War I veterans. None of them are around anymore. They’re all gone.

For millennials, they were World War II veterans. They’re fading fast. Soon, there’ll be none left.

For Generation Alpha, they’re Vietnam veterans.

Alzheimer’s cruelty is obvious: It steals your memories of the past and your capacity to predict the future. All you have is the present — the here and now.

But without your past and future as anchors, the present is a scary, random place. There’s paranoia, suspicions, conspiracies, and despair. A young man who stormed the beaches of Normandy is transformed into an old man cowering behind his bed, because he’s terrified that the nurses are coming to kill him.

Yet through it all, Alois and his fellow residents look after each other. They have each other’s backs. It’s surprisingly sweet: They bundle together to make sure everyone is safe — everyone remembered to eat — and nobody is alone.

Sometimes, the best friends you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll only meet when you need them the most.

They’re a band of brothers and sisters, united in their final mission. Not raging against the dying of the light — but not accepting it, either.

Instead, they’re doing something far more useful — and infinitely more heroic: They’re imposing their American values upon it.

Our memories aren’t guaranteed. Like the veterans of America’s wars, they eventually fade from view. Eventually, the Vietnam veterans will all fade away, too — and for Generation Beta, the “new” old men will be the Iran War veterans.

Together, they form an unbroken chain between today and 1776. Together, they bled and wept and cursed and screamed to preserve the sacred flame of liberty — until their minds and bodies were just too broken to continue.

And now, the burden is ours.

What I’ve learned from Alzheimer’s patients is that our values matter infinitely more than our memories. They last longer. Our values endure when all else crumbles.

American exceptionalism is a byproduct of American values. It’s what makes us special; it’s how we became a superpower. The former can’t exist without the latter.

(Also: Clydesdales are delicious.)

Happy birthday, America. Crack open a cold beverage and celebrate! Even though only four out of Politico’s 11 “experts” predict that our country will survive another 250 years, I wouldn’t trade America’s future for its past. In fact, I think our brightest days are still to come.

Because, in every age, we’ve had men such as Alois and his friends.

And if they can show this much love and honor in their twilight, imagine what we can all still do together — before the sun sets on our story, too.
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Re: Electric Cars Meet Economic Reality

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well,

they're not totally useless.

They can be used for military target practice both from the air as well as ground munitions.

When we figger out how to make one atomically powered safely then we might be on to something...

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Electric Cars Meet Economic Reality

http://thenewamerican.com/us/tech/electric-cars-meet-economic-reality/

The electric-car industry, once deemed the unstoppable wave of the future destined to completely replace gas-driven vehicles, has run aground on the shoals of economic reality. In a counter-swell that reflects growing consumer dissatisfaction with the high price, limited range, and charging-time inconveniences of electric vehicles, automotive corporations are dramatically scaling back, or canceling altogether, EV models in development or production, and reverting to hybrid and gas-driven models.
Multiple Makers Cutting Back

The reaction began last December, with Ford’s dramatic $19.5 billion write-down of its electric-vehicle product line, discontinuing its F-150 Lightning EV version and getting rid of a next-generation electric truck and electric commercial vans in development. At the time, Ford’s Andrew Frick, head of gas- and electric-vehicle operations, said, “Rather than spending billions more on large EVs that now have no path to profitability, we are allocating that money into higher-returning areas.”

Soon thereafter, in January, GM followed suit, announcing a $6 billion write-down in EV and battery production and shifting large portions of productive capacity from EVs back to traditional gas and hybrid models.

Then came Honda, which in March announced a massive scaling back of EV manufacturing plans for the United States, including the cancellation of three EV models slated for production in North America, which resulted in at least a $9 billion loss. In addition, Honda canceled plans for an $11 billion EV battery plant for Canada.

More recently, Nissan has shelved further work on development of a fully electric version of the Qashqai (Nissan’s top-selling European car), which was to have been built in the U.K., and Porsche was forced to write off nearly $16 billion in a dramatic scaling back of its own considerable EV-related assets, which reduced its operating profit by around 98 percent.
Simply Not Feasible

All of this, and more, is reflective of a new economic climate in the automotive sector following the Trump administration’s discontinuation of the Biden-era $7,500 tax write-off offered to EV buyers, along with sundry other government incentives and subsidies designed to transform the automotive industry by destroying gas vehicles and ushering in a new age of electric and hybrid ones.

The problem is that American consumers are not impressed with the inconveniences of EVs, including their enormous cost, and in a system that remains at least nominally free market, consumers have the final say. Electric vehicles that outperform gas vehicles — and do so economically — are proving just as much of a chimera as faster-than-light travel and affordable nuclear-fusion power plants. The laws of physics do impose limits on what technology is capable of achieving, even if hubristic politicians refuse to acknowledge them.

>>>>>>>>>>>

And, let us not forget that when things get really really cold . . . the EV's also freeze up. Zim.


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Electric Cars Meet Economic Reality 

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Electric Cars Meet Economic Reality

http://thenewamerican.com/us/tech/electric-cars-meet-economic-reality/

The electric-car industry, once deemed the unstoppable wave of the future destined to completely replace gas-driven vehicles, has run aground on the shoals of economic reality. In a counter-swell that reflects growing consumer dissatisfaction with the high price, limited range, and charging-time inconveniences of electric vehicles, automotive corporations are dramatically scaling back, or canceling altogether, EV models in development or production, and reverting to hybrid and gas-driven models.
Multiple Makers Cutting Back

The reaction began last December, with Ford’s dramatic $19.5 billion write-down of its electric-vehicle product line, discontinuing its F-150 Lightning EV version and getting rid of a next-generation electric truck and electric commercial vans in development. At the time, Ford’s Andrew Frick, head of gas- and electric-vehicle operations, said, “Rather than spending billions more on large EVs that now have no path to profitability, we are allocating that money into higher-returning areas.”

Soon thereafter, in January, GM followed suit, announcing a $6 billion write-down in EV and battery production and shifting large portions of productive capacity from EVs back to traditional gas and hybrid models.

Then came Honda, which in March announced a massive scaling back of EV manufacturing plans for the United States, including the cancellation of three EV models slated for production in North America, which resulted in at least a $9 billion loss. In addition, Honda canceled plans for an $11 billion EV battery plant for Canada.

More recently, Nissan has shelved further work on development of a fully electric version of the Qashqai (Nissan’s top-selling European car), which was to have been built in the U.K., and Porsche was forced to write off nearly $16 billion in a dramatic scaling back of its own considerable EV-related assets, which reduced its operating profit by around 98 percent.
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All of this, and more, is reflective of a new economic climate in the automotive sector following the Trump administration’s discontinuation of the Biden-era $7,500 tax write-off offered to EV buyers, along with sundry other government incentives and subsidies designed to transform the automotive industry by destroying gas vehicles and ushering in a new age of electric and hybrid ones.

The problem is that American consumers are not impressed with the inconveniences of EVs, including their enormous cost, and in a system that remains at least nominally free market, consumers have the final say. Electric vehicles that outperform gas vehicles — and do so economically — are proving just as much of a chimera as faster-than-light travel and affordable nuclear-fusion power plants. The laws of physics do impose limits on what technology is capable of achieving, even if hubristic politicians refuse to acknowledge them.

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Biden Was Planning to Leave America with Even Worse Immigration Crisis to Sabotage Trump, Bombshell Memo Reveals

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A newly uncovered White House memo from the final days of former President Joe Biden’s administration reveals that senior advisers considered dramatically expanding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to cover more than 3 million noncitizens.

According to the memo, the Biden admin believed the move could shield many from President Donald Trump’s planned deportation efforts and sabotage his immigration agenda.

The internal memo also acknowledged that lawsuits had successfully blocked many of Trump’s attempts during his first term to end TPS protections and suggested similar litigation could again frustrate enforcement efforts.

The document was obtained by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) through his authority as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution after it was provided by Archivist of the United States Edward Forst.

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2020 Voter FRAUD ! ! !

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Worse Than the Third World? Trump Exposes Mind-Blowing Election Compromising and Cheating

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11:00 PM on July 16, 2026
It turns out that the “conspiracy theorists” weren’t so crazy after all. President Donald Trump says that foreign governments and corrupt domestic bureaucrats have so compromised our election system across the country that it is worse than a Third World banana republic.

“No country could be great without fair and honest elections,” Trump insisted during his Thursday night primetime address. “You have to trust your country because if there can be no trust, there can be no greatness, and that's very simple: no trust, no greatness.” Unfortunately, according to him, between our enemies around the world like the Chinese and Iranian regimes and their collaborators in the American media and “Deep State,” malicious actors have stolen voters’ data, hacked electronic voting machines, manufactured fake ballots, and bribed fraudsters. It’s an “unprecedented election security nightmare.” And both Joe Biden and Barack Obama apparently benefited.

The president revealed a staggeringly gargantuan number from newly declassified documents: “Over a period of years, starting during the 2020 election cycle, the People's Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in China's illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files. That information includes names, addresses, phone numbers, political party preferences, and other sensitive data that would be needed to register to vote and engage in other nefarious activities,” Trump said.

The genocidal, America-hating Chinese Communist Party even had a special data exploitation unit dedicated to stealing U.S. voter data. “Compounding the travesty, the second set of documents we are releasing reveals that members of the Deep State, a very, very famous group of people," were complicit, with U.S. intelligence agencies covering up the evidence.

One of the most significant revelations in Trump’s speech regarded the 2020 election. “Raw intelligence obtained by the FBI in 2020, yet buried by rogue bureaucrats, stated that China's activities even included an attempt to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden,” Trump said, confirming election interference from our number one enemy on behalf of Biden. “Documents show that during this period, dozens of significant CIA and NSA reports about China's election targeting were kept out of the presidential briefing. These were briefings I would get almost every day.” The fix was in. One email explicitly admitted to leaving out information given to Trump during his first term in office.

The scheme goes back for years. “Another official inside the FBI wrote that she was running ‘a shadow government’ to keep intelligence about China's election meddling from becoming known,” President Trump stated. “Recently, we found significant numbers of burn bags … and this is a group of bags that were used to destroy information given by President Barack Hussein Obama to be burned ... These bags were supposed to be at a different level, by different people, incinerated … but it never happened. Maybe we got lucky.”

In light of all this evidence, Trump is mobilizing the office of the director of national intelligence, the Justice Department, the FBI, and the CIA to "investigate how and why such crucial information was hidden, to fire those involved in the cover-up, and to file criminal charges if appropriate against these people.”

He also discussed electronic voting and ballot counting machines. “Tonight, we're publishing a series of previously classified U.S. intelligence community assessments and other reports proving that our government has long known these machines are extremely exposed to attack. As one assessment states, we judge that the United States adversaries, including at a minimum Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, as well as non-state groups, have the capability to compromise U.S. election infrastructure,” Trump said.

And yet, whenever the federal government obtained evidence of election fraud, it buried that evidence. Trump pointed to the highly questionable Los Angeles mayoral election this year and mentioned just one organization in Michigan that was bribing people to fill out and submit falsified ballots. “The FBI agents working on the case believed that crimes were committed, yet the Biden Department of Justice slow-walked the investigation and killed it,” Trump explained. “Tonight, I'm asking the FBI director to ensure that the matter is fully investigated and to work with the Department of Justice to prosecute those responsible for any crimes.”

The president also mentioned a review from the Department of Homeland Security revealing almost 300,000 non-citizen names on voter rolls, which they believe is only the tip of the iceberg, since Democrat states have so far refused to share their data.

The most disgraceful part is just how many Americans were willing to work with foreign enemies to steal our elections. "In mid-2018, China was working to influence the results of the U.S. midterm elections, and later the results of the 2020 presidential election itself. Separately, in mid-2019, the Chinese government's strategy against the United States was focused on undermining domestic confidence in the U.S. president," Trump disclosed. "The strategy included efforts to use Chinese contacts with big U.S. companies to influence U.S. business leaders to turn against the president of the United States of America." Furthermore, "The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president, and pay them large sums of money."

Our media and Deep State were selling America to our worst foes. "Put together, these disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it," Trump declared. "Hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files are in the hands of foreign governments. Our machines and ballot counting systems are exposed to hacking, manipulation, and corruption. China and other countries have been trying to meddle in our elections. Evidence of fraud has been buried. Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens and dead people are listed and active on the voter rolls, and yet we still have elections with no voter ID, no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots floating aimlessly through the mail." That is indeed a situation that belongs to a Third World hellhole, not to the USA.




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