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The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history.
Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.
Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is.
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I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.
I come from your future.
In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.
Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.
The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.
The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.
I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.
Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?
Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
Je n'ai jamais été aussi optimiste. Pas malgré le chaos actuel, mais grâce à lui.
Je vais vous expliquer pourquoi l'empire du mensonge construit par la gauche depuis cinquante ans va s'effondrer, et pourquoi ce n'est pas une opinion mais une question de physique.
Tout commence avec un mouvement né sur X il y a quelques années : l'effective accelerationism, ou e/acc.
Au départ, c'est une idée presque thermodynamique. L'univers a une tendance de fond : la matière s'organise pour capter et dissiper l'énergie de plus en plus efficacement. Une cellule fait ça. Une forêt fait ça. Une civilisation fait ça. Le marché, la technologie et le capital sont les formes les plus avancées de ce processus. Ce sont des machines à transformer l'énergie en intelligence, en abondance, en complexité.
La thèse e/acc est simple : il ne faut pas freiner cette dynamique, il faut l'embrasser. Plus d'énergie, plus de calcul, plus d'innovation, plus de croissance. Monter sur l'échelle de Kardashev au lieu de s'excuser d'exister. En face, il y a les « décels » : ceux qui veulent ralentir, réguler, taxer, interdire, culpabiliser. Ceux qui voient le progrès comme une menace à contenir plutôt qu'une force à libérer.
Mais il y a une dimension de l'accélération dont presque personne ne parle. L'accélération n'est pas seulement un moteur. C'est un filtre.
Pensez à n'importe quel organisme. Un corps humain en bonne santé peut courir. Il accélère, son cœur pompe plus fort, ses muscles consomment plus d'oxygène, et tout fonctionne parce que le système est bien conçu. Maintenant, prenez un corps malade. Des artères bouchées, un cœur fragile, des organes qui ne communiquent plus entre eux. Faites-le courir. Il ne va pas plus vite vers la santé. Il va plus vite vers l'infarctus.
L'accélération ne corrige pas les défauts d'un système. Elle les amplifie. Un système sain qui accélère devient plus fort. Un système dysfonctionnel qui accélère meurt plus vite.
Et c'est exactement ce qui est en train d'arriver au projet que je vais appeler par son nom : le projet globalo-socialiste. Celui porté par les démocrates américains, par la technostructure de Bruxelles, par les entités supranationales qui n'ont de comptes à rendre à personne, par un réseau d'ONG financées par l'argent public pour dicter la morale aux peuples qui les financent.
Regardez ce que ce projet a produit.
Des États obèses qui prélèvent plus de la moitié de la richesse produite et qui délivrent des services publics de plus en plus dégradés. Des écoles qui n'apprennent plus à lire mais qui apprennent à culpabiliser. Des hôpitaux à bout de souffle malgré des budgets records. Une immigration massive sans aucune exigence d'assimilation, présentée comme une chance par ceux qui n'en subissent jamais les conséquences. Une désindustrialisation organisée au nom d'une écologie punitive qui délocalise la pollution en Chine et l'emploi avec. Des normes, des normes, et encore des normes, jusqu'à ce qu'il devienne plus simple de créer une entreprise à Austin qu'à Lyon. Une justice qui excuse le coupable et soupçonne la victime. Une censure qui avance masquée sous le nom de « lutte contre la désinformation ». Et une jeunesse à qui l'on a expliqué que son pays, son histoire et sa civilisation étaient des crimes à expier.
Ce n'est pas un ensemble de bugs. C'est la conception elle-même.
Maintenant, changeons d'image. Voyez ce système comme un moteur.
Un bon moteur, c'est de la précision. Des pièces qui s'emboîtent, un minimum de frottements, une énergie qui se transforme en mouvement. Le marché libre, la propriété, la responsabilité individuelle, la monnaie saine : c'est ça, un moteur bien conçu. L'information circule par les prix, chaque erreur est sanctionnée, chaque bonne idée est récompensée.
Le moteur socialiste, lui, est mal conçu dès le départ. Il ne tourne pas sur la création de valeur mais sur sa redistribution. Il ne récompense pas la performance, il la taxe. Il ne laisse pas les erreurs mourir, il les subventionne. Résultat : ça frotte partout. Ça chauffe. Ça grince. Chaque pièce use la pièce d'à côté.
Et que font ceux qui pilotent ce moteur ? Au lieu de le reconcevoir, ils changent les pièces. En permanence. Une pièce cède, on en remet une neuve. Encore une. Encore une.
Ces pièces de rechange, vous les connaissez. Elles s'appellent la dette publique et la planche à billets.
La France a dépassé les 3 300 milliards d'euros de dette et n'a pas voté un budget à l'équilibre depuis le milieu des années 70. Les États-Unis ont franchi les 37 000 milliards de dollars. Les banques centrales ont maintenu des taux à zéro pendant des années, imprimé des montants que plus personne ne sait se représenter, et quand l'inflation est arrivée, elles ont fait semblant d'être surprises. Milton Friedman l'avait pourtant dit il y a cinquante ans : l'inflation est toujours et partout un phénomène monétaire.
Chaque crise, on rachète du temps avec de l'argent qui n'existe pas. Chaque problème structurel, on l'arrose de liquidités pour masquer le bruit du moteur. Mais les frottements sont toujours là. Ils s'accumulent. Et la facture des pièces de rechange finit par coûter plus cher que le moteur lui-même : la charge de la dette devient l'un des premiers postes de dépense de l'État français.
Pendant des décennies, ce moteur mal conçu a pu tourner à 3 000 tours par minute. Lentement. Bruyamment. Mais il tournait. Le monde allait assez doucement pour que le bricolage permanent suffise à masquer l'absurdité de la conception.
Et puis l'IA est arrivée.
L'intelligence artificielle, c'est l'accélération la plus brutale de l'histoire humaine. Ce qui prenait des années prend des mois. Ce qui prenait des mois prend des jours. Des entreprises de dix personnes font ce que faisaient des entreprises de mille. Le capital, les talents et les idées se déplacent à la vitesse de la lumière vers les endroits où ils sont bien traités.
L'IA vient de faire passer le moteur de 3 000 à 20 000 tours par minute.
Posez-vous la question qu'un ingénieur se poserait. Que se passe-t-il quand on fait monter à 20 000 tours un moteur mal conçu, rafistolé de partout, qui frotte à chaque rotation ?
Il explose.
Pas parce que quelqu'un l'a saboté. Parce que la physique ne négocie pas.
Et c'est exactement ce que nous voyons en ce moment, sous nos yeux.
L'insécurité qui gagne des villes entières qui étaient paisibles il y a vingt ans. Le conflit de Gaza importé dans nos rues et instrumentalisé par une gauche qui a troqué l'ouvrier contre le clientélisme communautaire. La misère qui revient dans un pays qui a pourtant un des taux de dépense publique les plus élevés au monde. Des classes moyennes qui travaillent et n'arrivent plus à se loger. Une France fracturée, où l'on parle désormais à voix haute de risque de guerre civile.
Ce ne sont pas des accidents. Ce ne sont pas des « crises » successives sans lien entre elles. Ce sont les pièces du moteur qui commencent à voler.
C'est la conséquence logique de cinquante ans de socialisme international : un système qui a détruit la responsabilité, la frontière, la monnaie, l'école et la fierté, et qui découvre qu'à haute vitesse, tout ce qui a été détruit ne peut plus être compensé par une ligne de dette supplémentaire.
Et c'est là que je deviens profondément optimiste.
Parce qu'une fois qu'on a compris ça, on comprend aussi que leur projet a une date de fin. Pas une date politique. Une date physique. Un système qui consomme plus qu'il ne produit, qui punit ceux qui créent et récompense ceux qui détruisent, qui finance son présent en hypothéquant l'avenir de ses enfants, ne peut pas durer indéfiniment. Il n'est pas soutenable par construction. L'IA ne fait qu'avancer l'échéance.
Le mensonge a besoin de lenteur pour survivre. Il a besoin que les conséquences arrivent assez tard pour qu'on puisse accuser quelqu'un d'autre. Dans un monde à 20 000 tours, les conséquences arrivent immédiatement. Le mensonge n'a plus le temps de se cacher.
Alors, que faire quand le moteur explose ? On en construit un nouveau. Et cette fois, on le conçoit correctement.
Écoutez Elon Musk. Un homme qui a reconstruit l'industrie spatiale, la voiture électrique et l'infrastructure satellite en partant d'un principe simple : revenir aux premiers principes. Ne pas demander « comment on a toujours fait », mais « qu'est-ce qui est physiquement vrai ». C'est exactement ce dont nos États ont besoin : arrêter de rafistoler et repartir de la base.
Écoutez Javier Milei. Un homme dont tout le monde se moquait, arrivé à la tête d'un pays ravagé par un siècle de péronisme, et qui a pris la tronçonneuse au sens propre. Ministères supprimés, dépenses coupées, inflation écrasée, excédent budgétaire retrouvé. Il a prouvé une chose que la gauche jurait impossible : on peut démonter le moteur socialiste et le peuple peut le soutenir.
Écoutez Milton Friedman. Relisez-le. Tout était déjà là. La monnaie, la liberté de choisir, la responsabilité, les effets pervers de l'intervention publique. Il disait que si l'on confiait le Sahara au gouvernement fédéral, il y aurait pénurie de sable en cinq ans. On a ri. On a confié le sable. On a eu la pénurie.
Revenez à une hiérarchie et au respect du beau. Une civilisation ne tient pas que sur des chiffres. Elle tient sur l'idée qu'il existe des choses supérieures à d'autres. Que l'excellence vaut mieux que la médiocrité. Que le mérite compte. Qu'une cathédrale est plus belle qu'un parking. Que transmettre est un devoir et pas une oppression. Le relativisme a été l'arme culturelle de ce projet. Le retour du beau, du vrai et de l'exigence en sera l'antidote.
Et enfin, faites le Nuremberg du communisme. Le nazisme a été jugé, documenté, enseigné, et il est devenu moralement indéfendable. Le communisme, avec ses dizaines de millions de morts, ses goulags, ses famines organisées et ses peuples réduits en esclavage, n'a jamais eu ce procès. On peut encore porter un t-shirt du Che dans une université sans que personne ne cille. Tant que ce procès historique et moral n'aura pas eu lieu, l'idéologie continuera de muter et de revenir sous de nouveaux noms. Il faut nommer les crimes, les enseigner, honorer les victimes, et rendre cette idéologie aussi infréquentable que celle qu'elle prétendait combattre.
Le monde qui vient sera plus rapide, plus exigeant et plus impitoyable avec les systèmes mal conçus. C'est une terrible nouvelle pour ceux qui ont vécu du mensonge.
Et c'est la meilleure nouvelle de notre génération pour tous ceux qui veulent construire.
Le moteur va exploser. À nous de dessiner le suivant.
You will be removed from office, convicted, and then serve time. After that, comes a Deportation, that is well deserved.
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👳🏾♀️ DEPORT THE MEN
🧕🏾 DEPORT THE WOMEN
👶🏾 DEPORT THE KIDS
★★DEPORT THE ENEMY WITHIN★★
Old Salt II retweeted
"Hey friend, Rascal texted and said we got some "work to do" ."
"Wait, what? You aren't carrying? What is wrong with yo... Nevermind, we'll talk about that later, just take this and get in the truck."
Yeah, it's a Ruger RXM COA 9mm, yeah @SummRidge pitched in so be nice, and yeah he's coming too. Now get in.
"You don't know how this works? What're we doing? The crew will fill you in, now take a few breaths and pull yourself together. This hay ain't gonna put itself in the barn."
🤖 Made with AI
Old Salt II retweeted
House Democrats say "No one asked for this war."
Iran asked. In 1979. In Beirut in 1983. At Khobar Towers in 1996. In Iraq, where one of their copper slugs found me.
47 years of asking. My full reply is below, including the pallets of cash, and why I do not want my kids to become a shadow on a wall.
Tell me I am wrong.
#Veterans #Iran #Trump
Replying to @HouseDemocrats
Translation of this post: "Please stop hurting the world's #1 state sponsor of terrorism. It is getting expensive."
You are right about one thing. It costs billions. The Pentagon told Congress about $43.6 billion through early September. Real money. I will not pretend otherwise.
Now the OTHER bill. The one you never mention.
"No one asked for this war." Iran asked. Iran has been asking since November 4, 1979. 52 American hostages, 444 days. They asked again in Beirut in 1983. 241 Marines, sailors, and soldiers. Khobar Towers, 1996. 19 airmen. Then Iraq, where the Pentagon ties about 603 American deaths to Iranian-backed militias.
They asked me personally, too. Iraq. An Iranian-style EFP, which is a slug of molten copper that goes through armor like wet cardboard. So "no one asked" sounds like it came from a caucus whose elevator stops a few floors short of the top.
The State Department has listed Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984. Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, the Iraqi militias that shot at my friends. Iran is the ATM. Oil is the PIN number. By one reconstruction of Iran's own budget, about half of its oil and gas export revenue was earmarked for the armed forces. Hezbollah alone has been getting somewhere around $700 million to $1 billion a year from Tehran. Every barrel they sell is a rocket somebody else gets to dodge.
And who keeps refilling the ATM?
What is next, Democrats flying pallets of cash to Tehran in the middle of the night? ...wait, I was just told they already did that. January 2016. $400 million in foreign currency, stacked on pallets, part of a $1.7 billion deal. Then in 2023, Biden's Autopen waived sanctions so $6 billion in Iranian money could move to Qatar. About three weeks later: October 7. In 2017 the Senate passed Iran sanctions 98 to 2. Bernie was one of the 2. Not exactly the brightest crayons in the box over there.
When your policy funds the terrorist, you do not get to call yourself anti-terrorism. That is not an insult. That is bookkeeping. Quinn's Law #9 fits perfectly: to liberals, intentions matter more than outcomes. You INTEND peace. The OUTCOME is a better-funded Hezbollah.
Now the part that is personal.
I teach physics. Uranium enriched to 60 percent is not "almost there" the way a C-minus is almost a B. By 60 percent, most of the work to reach weapons grade is already done. The IAEA said Iran was sitting on hundreds of kilograms of it. No power plant on Earth needs 60 percent. Anyone who thinks that is for electricity is a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
In Hiroshima there was a shadow on the stone steps of the Sumitomo Bank. Someone sat there waiting for the bank to open. The flash bleached the stone around them. The dark patch their body blocked is all that remained.
I have kids. I do not want my kids to be a black shadow on a wall. I do not want YOUR kids to be one either, even if your caucus plans ahead like a goldfish.
"END THE WAR NOW." On whose terms? The regime keeps its enrichment, missiles, and proxies, and gets to charge tolls on the Strait of Hormuz. That is not peace. That is a reload break.
What is next, letting Iran put a toll booth on a fifth of the world's oil supply? Oh. Right. Tehran stood up a "Persian Gulf Strait Authority" in May and started demanding permits, and the June memorandum only promised free passage for 60 days before a chat about "future administration." Sixty days. My milk has a longer commitment than that. Anyone who reads that and sees peace is rowing with one oar, in circles, in a kiddie pool. Quinn's Law #1: liberalism always produces the exact opposite of its stated intent. "Peace now" is how you buy the next war, only with a warhead on it.
Gas. The all-time record was $5.02 in June 2022. Hormuz was wide open. Inflation hit 9.1 percent. Your excuse then was "Putin" and "presidents do not control gas prices." Today, with Hormuz a war zone, we are under that record. And Biden's Autopen killed Keystone XL on day one. Blaming the war for every price tag in America is post hoc ergo propter hoc: after it, therefore because of it. My students learn that fallacy before Thanksgiving. The lights are on, but nobody is home. If brains were gasoline, your whole caucus could not idle a Prius in the driveway.
So what have YOU done to help people fill their tanks and feed their kids, besides spending other people's money and blaming Trump? Quinn's Law #13 says liberals never let a good crisis go to waste, and you are squeezing this one like a lemon at a fundraiser. I'll wait. Bring a snack.
One more thing, since you suddenly care about the cost of war. Eighteen Americans have died in this one. Over 830 have been wounded. The medically retired ones come home to the Wounded Veteran Tax: retirement offset by VA disability. The Major Richard Star Act (HR 2102) fixes it. Discharge petition H.Res. 1247. Sign it. That is supporting the troops. Using them as a prop in a fundraising post is not.
But what do I know, I am only a combat medic who has seen what Iranian copper does to a Humvee, and a physics teacher who knows what 60 percent is one step away from.
@TPUSA @JoJoFromJerz @atrupar #MAGA #Veterans #Trump
Old Salt II retweeted
Replying to @HouseDemocrats
Translation of this post: "Please stop hurting the world's #1 state sponsor of terrorism. It is getting expensive."
You are right about one thing. It costs billions. The Pentagon told Congress about $43.6 billion through early September. Real money. I will not pretend otherwise.
Now the OTHER bill. The one you never mention.
"No one asked for this war." Iran asked. Iran has been asking since November 4, 1979. 52 American hostages, 444 days. They asked again in Beirut in 1983. 241 Marines, sailors, and soldiers. Khobar Towers, 1996. 19 airmen. Then Iraq, where the Pentagon ties about 603 American deaths to Iranian-backed militias.
They asked me personally, too. Iraq. An Iranian-style EFP, which is a slug of molten copper that goes through armor like wet cardboard. So "no one asked" sounds like it came from a caucus whose elevator stops a few floors short of the top.
The State Department has listed Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984. Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, the Iraqi militias that shot at my friends. Iran is the ATM. Oil is the PIN number. By one reconstruction of Iran's own budget, about half of its oil and gas export revenue was earmarked for the armed forces. Hezbollah alone has been getting somewhere around $700 million to $1 billion a year from Tehran. Every barrel they sell is a rocket somebody else gets to dodge.
And who keeps refilling the ATM?
What is next, Democrats flying pallets of cash to Tehran in the middle of the night? ...wait, I was just told they already did that. January 2016. $400 million in foreign currency, stacked on pallets, part of a $1.7 billion deal. Then in 2023, Biden's Autopen waived sanctions so $6 billion in Iranian money could move to Qatar. About three weeks later: October 7. In 2017 the Senate passed Iran sanctions 98 to 2. Bernie was one of the 2. Not exactly the brightest crayons in the box over there.
When your policy funds the terrorist, you do not get to call yourself anti-terrorism. That is not an insult. That is bookkeeping. Quinn's Law #9 fits perfectly: to liberals, intentions matter more than outcomes. You INTEND peace. The OUTCOME is a better-funded Hezbollah.
Now the part that is personal.
I teach physics. Uranium enriched to 60 percent is not "almost there" the way a C-minus is almost a B. By 60 percent, most of the work to reach weapons grade is already done. The IAEA said Iran was sitting on hundreds of kilograms of it. No power plant on Earth needs 60 percent. Anyone who thinks that is for electricity is a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
In Hiroshima there was a shadow on the stone steps of the Sumitomo Bank. Someone sat there waiting for the bank to open. The flash bleached the stone around them. The dark patch their body blocked is all that remained.
I have kids. I do not want my kids to be a black shadow on a wall. I do not want YOUR kids to be one either, even if your caucus plans ahead like a goldfish.
"END THE WAR NOW." On whose terms? The regime keeps its enrichment, missiles, and proxies, and gets to charge tolls on the Strait of Hormuz. That is not peace. That is a reload break.
What is next, letting Iran put a toll booth on a fifth of the world's oil supply? Oh. Right. Tehran stood up a "Persian Gulf Strait Authority" in May and started demanding permits, and the June memorandum only promised free passage for 60 days before a chat about "future administration." Sixty days. My milk has a longer commitment than that. Anyone who reads that and sees peace is rowing with one oar, in circles, in a kiddie pool. Quinn's Law #1: liberalism always produces the exact opposite of its stated intent. "Peace now" is how you buy the next war, only with a warhead on it.
Gas. The all-time record was $5.02 in June 2022. Hormuz was wide open. Inflation hit 9.1 percent. Your excuse then was "Putin" and "presidents do not control gas prices." Today, with Hormuz a war zone, we are under that record. And Biden's Autopen killed Keystone XL on day one. Blaming the war for every price tag in America is post hoc ergo propter hoc: after it, therefore because of it. My students learn that fallacy before Thanksgiving. The lights are on, but nobody is home. If brains were gasoline, your whole caucus could not idle a Prius in the driveway.
So what have YOU done to help people fill their tanks and feed their kids, besides spending other people's money and blaming Trump? Quinn's Law #13 says liberals never let a good crisis go to waste, and you are squeezing this one like a lemon at a fundraiser. I'll wait. Bring a snack.
One more thing, since you suddenly care about the cost of war. Eighteen Americans have died in this one. Over 830 have been wounded. The medically retired ones come home to the Wounded Veteran Tax: retirement offset by VA disability. The Major Richard Star Act (HR 2102) fixes it. Discharge petition H.Res. 1247. Sign it. That is supporting the troops. Using them as a prop in a fundraising post is not.
But what do I know, I am only a combat medic who has seen what Iranian copper does to a Humvee, and a physics teacher who knows what 60 percent is one step away from.
@TPUSA @JoJoFromJerz @atrupar #MAGA #Veterans #Trump
We need a Constitutional Amendment to ban all Tax Dollars being given to ALL Non-Governmental Organizations…..if we do this…you will see our deficit shrink. Dramatically.
You implied all that people….and some do….that utilize IVF, choose to selectively reduce baby’s. We didn’t. We wanted to bring a child into this world, and guide her through it. We’ve done that. We aren’t sorry.
This is exactly what the lunatic left votes for.
Just to recap what happened here.
1) Illegal alien from Guinea is caught and released at the AZ border by the Biden admin in 2023.
2) He’s arrested by NYPD in June in sanctuary NYC for sexually assaulting a minor & is released.
3) Now charged w/ raping his female underage teen passenger as a rideshare driver in Maryland.
Failure at every level & yet another example of a crime that should have never been able to happen in the first place.
Old Salt II retweeted
Translation:
The Democrat Party is the party of illegals, fraudsters, pedophiles, rapists, murderers, and other vicious degenerates.
Just to recap what happened here.
1) Illegal alien from Guinea is caught and released at the AZ border by the Biden admin in 2023.
2) He’s arrested by NYPD in June in sanctuary NYC for sexually assaulting a minor & is released.
3) Now charged w/ raping his female underage teen passenger as a rideshare driver in Maryland.
Failure at every level & yet another example of a crime that should have never been able to happen in the first place.
Monsters.
Baby Born Alive at 23 Weeks Was Gasping for Air. Abortion Clinic Put Baby in a Bag, Threw Her in the Trash buff.ly/wFVln0k
Old Salt II retweeted
After 9/11 I dropped out of college and joined the Marine Corps, volunteering for the infantry.
I knew that “radical Islam” was responsible for the attack, and I wanted to have a rifle in my hand to go after those who were responsible for and in league with those who attacked us. Obviously in hindsight, our missions in Iraq and Afghanistan were poorly executed with no achievable objective ever clearly articulated, devolving into nonsensical nation building exercises.
In the 25 years since, all of my experiences, including multiple deployments, and decades of research, have led me to a more important realization…
It wasn’t “radical Islam” that attacked the United States, it was just Islam.
And more importantly, that virtually no society that has seen a large influx of Islam has remained intact, and otherwise survived it.
Islam is the problem, and I realize how uncomfortable it is for Americans to speak in absolutes, and that there may be outliers, but at large scale, Islam has never resulted in a society that embraces and appreciates human liberty. In the wild Islam at scale destroys liberty, it doesn’t foster and build it.
Islam is a political ideology doctrinally dedicated to the conquering and subjugation of all non-Muslims.
Radical Islam isn’t a national security threat to the United States, Islam is, and people need to learn to be comfortable saying that, because if enough don’t, our children and grandchildren will not inherit liberty, they will inherit Islamic theocracy.
These are some of the final recorded FDNY radio communications from inside the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
In the final minutes before the tower collapsed, firefighters were still climbing toward the impact zone, searching for survivors and calling for more men to come up.
Battalion Chief Orio Palmer had reached the 78th floor. Lt. Joseph Leavey of Ladder 15 was climbing toward him. With barely two minutes remaining, Palmer called Battalion 9 Chief Edward Geraghty and told him they had access to the floors above.
Geraghty's response: “All right, I'm on my way up, Orio.”
Seconds later, a Ladder 15 firefighter radioed that he was trapped in an elevator shaft: “We're chopping through the wall to get out.”
The radio signal disappeared shortly afterward. The South Tower collapsed at 9:59 a.m.
Orio Palmer, Joseph Leavey and Edward Geraghty were killed that morning. They were still going up while others were trying to get out.
Note: Some images used in this clip are unverified. For the sake of accuracy, I have not attempted to identify those individuals.


























