There's a bigger picture here that I must confess I'm struggling to grasp. In particular, the more manifest destiny elements of President Trump's statements of late. Think Greenland, Canada, Gulf of America, & the Panama Canal.

The President knows the big issues that his core supporters (US!) have been talking about and care about (Corruption in the IC, the Cabal, the child trafficking epidemic, federal reserve, etc) so it's interesting to me that he's leading his pre-inauguration rhetoric with an expansionist tone.

Now, of course the underlying subject of that expansionist tone is SECURITY. The question is why? At least based on the information available to all of us, there are bigger security problems in this country. The pipeline of Chinese spies into the academic and corporate world, Chinese semi-conductors with backdoors being used in US Military equipment, etc.

So why the curveball? Now, it could be a feint to de-emphasize something else he and his administration are doing. But at least so far, it's not apparent what that "something else" is.

I unfortunately don't have answers here. It's something I'm still chewing on and researching. But curious to get the GAW community's thoughts.

Here's a link to the original post from O'Keefe: https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1876792824454090975

OP, I recommended that this be stickied. Very concerning story that we need to dig into.

I think of future Canada and Mexico as protectorates or more bluntly, assets. They gotta EARN statehood with good behavior and lots of tribute.

An important reference article for the brain dead Leftists in all our lives.

This deserves a sticky.

Next steps: Conquer Canada, capture Trudeau and put him on trial.

That's fine and I don't necessarily disagree with you. But again, if you want to add to the conversation in a meaningful fashion, it needs to be more than "LARP". Your gut is telling you something and I do not discount that, but expand on what you're thinking/feeling.

You keep posting this.

It deserves elaboration beyond "Ryan is ex-CIA".

-1000

Edgar Mitchell!

+1000 points to this thread for nobody saying "All aliens are demons".

There's a positive here.

Look at the likes and replies to this thread. So many regular Americans are becoming wise to the machinations of the intelligence community.

In the coming 4 years, I can think of nothing more important than dismantling & exposing the 4th pillar of government that the IC has become. And I don't see that happening without a lot of very vocal public support for the President and his people.

So encouraging to see so many people immediately assessing this situation for what it is.

Could not agree more, SKF.

A couple items from the article:

The FBI is finally calling this an act of terrorism: "Christopher Raia of the FBI called the attack a premeditated "act of terrorism.""

But then a rather odd statement from the Governor today given that Jabbar supposedly acted alone:

"Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Thursday compared the investigation to a jigsaw puzzle."

No mention that Jabbar served at the same military base as the Tesla bomber, Livelsberger.

At least on its face, this looks like another attempt by the FBI to neatly tie off the story of a mass murderer.

Incredibly sad. It's 2025 and yet 45 million souls needlessly extinguished.

And a very solvable problem if there was interest in making birth control without horrendous side effects. But I'm sure the pharm industry doesn't want to produce birth control medication that works without side effects as it would hurt their supply of fetal stem cells.

And I understand and respect that for Catholics, birth control methods are forbidden (beyond the rhythm method), but I'd greatly prefer people who don't want children not having them in the first place than getting abortions.

Agree, ME. Though it's rarely caused these bastards to resign in the past. Usually it's just when they have legal exposure where they think resigning might save them.

That's why I'm curious about this story. I wasn't aware of any specific misconduct on the past of Dettelbach aside from the usual stuff that Leftists applaud. Makes me wonder if he does indeed have some skeletons in the closet.

Interesting. The tweet doesn't say who confirmed the obvious fact that this was a terrorist attack.

The nose-ringed DEI hire section chief from the FBI said specifically that there was "no evidence" that this was a terrorist attack.

I suppose that's not surprising since the FBI categorizes angry parents at school board meetings as terrorists these days.

And now an alleged mass shooting in Queens, NYC. Difficult to believe that all of these events in such a short timeframe aren't coordinated in some fashion. But to what end?

Indeed on both counts, O. When a Federal department becomes a literal boogieman to law-abiding citizens, it needs to go.

This news (if true) is rather interesting. Dettelbach has been an anti-2A monster during his tenure, but I'm not aware of anything he's done that's clearly illegal beyond heading up an agency that's blatantly anti-Constitutional.

Take responsibility for your own actions. It was obvious from the start that this wasn't an accident or malfunction.

AL, I'm sad to say we have people on this very platform that are arguing that Elon "brought this on himself" for his tweets about the H-1B program.

The insanity seems to be spreading.

And we have people on GAW literally saying that Elon brought this on himself for his tweets.

So you literally think Elon deserved to have one of his vehicles detonated as a terrorist attack on Trump Tower because of his tweets?

Don't tell me about sad, imbecile.

"Elon did that to himself mate."

This is an utterly insane statement.

Elon did a poor job of articulating the need for talented immigrant engineers, even worse at accounting for the destructive scam that is the H-1B visa program, but to say that he "did this to himself" after providing a platform that actually allows for a degree of free speech, to say nothing of educating and red pilling the public, is fucking RETARDED.

Elon is not immune to criticism. I can write pages. But I wonder what's going through your mind and the 4 idiots that upvoted you.

Very few things will be more important in this 4 year term than dismantling the corrupt IC.

If DJT and his allies cannot accomplish this, little else matters.

It's been disappointing to see the lack of nuance in this discussion/fight on X. I'd argue that it's been better on GAW but still plenty of black/white/all or nothing takes.

Elon is right in that in order to maintain tech & AI dominance in the coming years, talented engineers must be imported to fill out the ranks of American companies.

However, Elon completely ignored the problems and abuses of the H-1B visa system, to say nothing of the constant abuse dished out by U.S. companies who still regularly wipe out entire tech departments and replace them with middling level 1 "technical people" in India.

Elon deserved to get some serious heat for the lack of nuance in his comments.

However, the Laura Loomer's of the world missed the boat as well on the primary point because Elon is not wrong. If we want to be dominant, it will take years of cultural & economic change to have enough homegrown engineers.

I'm hoping that even with the lack of nuance, getting this subject out front and center will be a good thing and will eventually settle down into a proper national discussion. The solutions are pretty simple. Just enable the best and brightest to come here, but talented American engineers / technical people get priority.