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Another Arab Persian Gulf (and GCC country) just did some strikes against the IRGC…

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“Kuwait strikes IRGC naval targets in the Persian Gulf, hits southern ports, and detains IRGC personnel.”….

With everything going on in the world, I thought a touch of humor might be appropriate. Note – put down anything you are holding (such as a glass or cup). Maybe it’s just me, but I haven’t laughed this hard in a while…

Revenge of the Auggie Doggies 😉

Great idea I ran across…

“Hammer To Fall”
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Dan Scavino posted:

Some of the opening comments…

Xi:

PDJT:

I would have been surprised if there had been any there…

The more the merrier I say, when it comes to rooted out fraud and abuse…

I’ve been named Chairman of the new @GOPoversight Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses. And we are not waiting.

For too long, corrupt institutions across this country have operated like the rules don’t apply to them, abusing Americans, plundering taxpayers, and silencing speech — all in plain sight, betting that nobody would ever come for them.

That calculation just changed.

Here’s what this Task Force is going to do:

We are going after entities that have abused immigration and welfare programs to defraud taxpayers and rob Americans of their hard-earned money.

We are going after institutions that have hidden illegal race-based discrimination behind DEI cover and lied to the American public about it.

We are going after entities that have worked to silence Americans’ lawful political speech.

And we are already moving. Our first action: a formal investigation into a massive Medicaid fraud scandal in Ohio — where hundreds of shell companies operating out of empty office buildings billed taxpayers over $250 million for services that could not be verified.

And we believe the full scope of this scandal reaches into the billions.

A @realDailyWire reporter found this in two months. The agency responsible for stopping it had years. We just sent the letter demanding answers.

This is what the Task Force was built for.

Corrupt institutions have had their free pass for too long. We are coming for them.

https://xcancel.com/RepBrandonGill/status/2054668388740313130#m

“We’ll notice them for you and tell you what you should think…”

Darn funny comment about how “we kept trying to put out stories propaganda, and nobody noticed due to PDJT’s tweets.”

Excellent point…

A mention of The Conservative Treehouse:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0SCTDTk5e4jJxDQmSKNYZJkpHUDvB3UTi3yUoUAsRN1FCozkUXQoN1VHJTXMbVNQXl&id=100064381164299&mibextid=Nif5oz

Canada’s auto industry could disappear by 2040, RBC warns

(Worst-case scenario sees assembly plants shuttered across Canada)

Excerpt:

According to an RBC analysis presented Tuesday, if auto industry provisions in the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) are scrapped or severely weakened, and Canada opens its car market to Chinese-made electric vehicles in exchange for trade concessions in other areas, automakers are expected to gradually shut down assembly plants in Canada, with all facilities shuttered by 2040.

https://lfpress.com/news/national/canadas-auto-industry-could-disappear-by-2040-rbc-warns

Rubio just explained exactly why President Trump places SO MUCH EMPHASIS on meeting adversarial leaders like Xi Jinping face-to-face, while Biden refused

“We’re going to be able to talk TO them as opposed to AT them.”

“When the leaders are actually engaging personally, not just the president to president, but me with their foreign minister and Pete Hegseth with their defense minister and so forth, it creates channels of communication that can prove VALUABLE in a time of potential conflict or where there might be heightened tension.”

https://xcancel.com/nicksortor/status/2054735454293950624#m