The Reason They Lost

Vice-President JD Vance admits that fighting Israel’s war cost Republicans the country.

There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.

So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we’re going to shock the world? “No,” he told me. “We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us.”

Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.

There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.

But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.

Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:

  1. End the war
  2. Focus on cost of living/inflation
  3. Put America First
  4. Change our relationship to Israel

Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)

In the next few months, there’s going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I’m open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.

The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.

If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.

But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.

Amnesty? AMNESTY?

They still don’t understand the seriousness of the situation. I don’t think these so-called political experts understand that Americans would prefer literal heads on spikes and involuntary post-partum euthanasia to one more immigrant entering the country, even if said immigrant is legal, high-IQ, and a supermodel on the side. The fact is that politics is never going to be a potential solution for a problem that politics didn’t create.

No one ever voted for 130 million foreigners and their children entering the country. No one ever voted for allowing them to vote and even to rule over Americans in their own interests. Which is why voting simply cannot be a solution to the many woes caused by that invasion, especially not when many of the voting options now presented to Americans is a choice between one foreigner and another foreigner.

Asking a Scandinavian if they prefer for a Jew or a Somali to rule over them is obviously never going to be a viable solution.

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To Hell with Republicans

I have never been prouder to be able to say that I am not, and have never been, a Republican. Or, for that matter, a conservative. Now, I have no doubt that the Democrats cheated, scammed, and cast fraudulent votes like they always do. They are openly evil and beneath contempt. But the Republicans, as always, allowed them do it all across the USA despite their oaths to the Constitution. And, perhaps even more importantly, the Republicans have governed in an aggressively anti-American, anti-Christian manner every chance they’ve gotten; the mere fact that a) the Epstein files still haven’t been released in their unredacted entirety, b) material support for Ukraine and Israel is still being provided, c) Iran was repeatedly attacked against the American national interest, and d) H1B visas still exist are all reasons why the Republicans deserve no support whatsoever from any American.

Now, I am very well aware that some will say that the Democrats are worse. That is largely true. But that doesn’t change the fact that the Republicans are evil and anti-American, or that voting for them will do nothing to restore the USA to the American Christian nation it once was. If your answer to any of the problems and challenges facing Americans involves either “vote Democrat” or “vote Republican” you are simply fooling yourself.

And did you really ever imagine the Second Amendment was written for fear of Redcoats and Russians? Or is it more likely that the Founding Fathers anticipated the Republic would one day need to be restored?

This gentleman put it very well on X:

Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.

Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.

You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.

You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.

Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.

Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.

On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.

You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.

Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.

At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.

You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.

After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.

Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.

Your son grows upset. You change the channel.

Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.

Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.

Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.

You sit alone in your living room.

You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.

Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.

And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.

Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.

For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.

The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:

You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.

And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.

What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?

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All Politics is Identity

LKYist political realities have reached Texas:

Texas results by group

🔴 White men: +23 Republican
🔴 White women: +13 Republican
🔵 Latino men: +19 Democrat
🔵 Latino women: +42 Democrat
🔵 Black men: +77 Democrat
🔵 Black women: +84 Democrat
🔵 All others: +10 Democrat

Like it or not, demographics are destiny

Indeed. Politics proper can only function in the homogenous polis. Once different religions and ethnic groups live in the same government structure, all the ideological disagreements vanish and only the raw struggle for power between the different groups remains.

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The Secret Beneath the Smokescreen

AC suspects, and I tend to concur, that the mainstream evolutionary perspective in biology is a smokescreen intended to obscure certain facts about human origins:

Most “authority bioscience people” are midwits the conspiracy has elevated artificially to fill the role of the natural geniuses who domestic surveillance’s school units are designed to suppress. I would not assume any of them understand anything. and they just repeat what they see written somewhere.

Obviously they are promoting easily debunkable clear falsities, while asserting it is fact, and telling everyone you have to believe they are the final word. Vox is one of the mathematically gifted who sees it is bullshit and is calling it out – which is a great service. I am degreed in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, and I never heard this argument until Vox made it.

But people who really understand the science end up not only understanding how things work, they also understand we do not know about everything. Look at history, and theories pop up, some are wrong and get knocked down, others can be right and get knocked down, others can then come back after being debunked and turn out to be right after all, and it is all a result of the myriad of stresses we are designed to confront leading to us having umpteen backup and regulatory pathways, some almost never activated, others operating unnoticed behind far more massive pathways, and do forth.

I would not get my panties in a bunch over this argument because I have always assumed there would be other mechanisms to guide evolution, which we just do not know. Aspects of the way different atoms interact, or move, or are affected by outside variables which alter the rates of random mutations until they are not random, and those atoms tend to do things in the cytoplasm which tend to produce those structures, which work that way. There are probably mechanisms which detect high amounts of mRNA, conclude that the body needs a lot of that gene product because it is calling for large amounts of its template, and so they burn additional copies of the RNA sequence back into the DNA so more can be transxribed per time period.

When they introduced the vax, there was no way for the Spike mRNA to be retro-transcribed into the DNA. Then they found people still producing Spike years later, and it was clearly not the mRNA they were injected with.

Any biologist who attacks Vox here, I just assume is clueless, because anybody intelligent in the field knows we don’t know anywhere near everything about the mechanisms involved. To me Vox’s argument should be acknowledged and serve as an impetus to investigate why there is this disparity. It doubtless points to a Nobel-prize worthy discovery and a revolution in the understanding.

It is probably just a result of all the authorities in the nation being theater-kids from the domestic surveillance, pretending to be experts, but their side is so retarded here I almost wonder if something is being hidden there, and they are really trying to hide something else which they do not want us to know, maybe about our origins.

As it happens, I assumed that alternative evolutionary mechanisms would be one way to account for the obvious inability of the existing mechanisms to account for all of the genetic divergences observed between every pair of diverged species. Because it’s not just a chimp-human divergence that needs to be correctly accounted for, but all the other divergences from macacque to bonobo and siamang to Bornean orangutan. The mainstream models fall catastrophically short in every single case.

And I even found a new evolutionary mechanism through examining and correcting the boundaries of Kimura’s time equation. In humans, at least, relictation accounts for about half the total base pairs that natural selection does, although between them they don’t account for eight percent of the total divergence. So, I don’t think there are likely any more to discover, and even if we do, I don’t think they will account for the tens of millions of divergent base pairs.

What I find more than a little amusing is that, unlike Charles Darwin, I have managed to identify, prove, and quantify an actual evolutionary mechanism. And yet, somehow, the evolutionists still fail to celebrate and revere me.

I don’t know what the secret beneath the smokescreen is. Perhaps it’s Intelligent Genetic Manipulation. Perhaps it’s something else entirely. But I’m reasonably confident that there is something obscured by the modern evolutionary paradigm that not only contradicts, but completely overturns, our current understanding of biological history. I think that’s something that scientists should be excited about, but apparently most of them would rather keep themselves occupied with the scientific equivalent of coloring books, just using their crayons to fill in the blanks of the existing paradigm.

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Democrats in Charge

It would be impossible to be surprised to see that Republicans across the USA didn’t bother turning out to vote for the AIPAC Zionists whose only concern has proved to be war for Israel, even at the cost of the US military and the US economy.

Democrats have seized the House of Representatives and the Senate in a devastating double blow to President Trump that could mark the beginning of the end for the MAGA era. In what amounted to a political earthquake, the midterm elections saw a series of deep-red states turn blue.

In Texas, Democratic newcomer James Talarico defeated Trump-backed Republican Ken Paxton, while South Carolina elected a Democrat senator for the first time since 1998.

Most remarkably of all, Kansas sent a Democrat to the US Senate, which it had not done since 1932 during the Great Depression.

There were further stunning Democrat Senate victories in Iowa and Ohio, states Trump won by more than 10 points in the presidential election in 2024.

In one of the most-watched races left-wing Democrat Abdul El-Sayed declared victory over Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan, making him the first Muslim elected to the Senate.

Jubilant Democrats described the results as a ‘blue tsunami’ or a ‘Bluenami.’

Although he was not on the ballot, the midterms were effectively a nationwide referendum on Trump. Republicans’ crushing losses were a dagger to the heart for the White House where a vicious blame game immediately began.

The short fake Trump has successfully destroyed what the real Trump was building. Of course, it won’t be long before the Democrats demonstrate that they are even worse than the AIPAC-owned Republicans, because they are owned by AIPAC too.

I wasn’t kidding when I estimated the end of the more perfect union in 2033. There is not a political solution to this metastasized political cancer on the American people. Turning over the government to a group of foreign satanists was never going to end well.

It’s informative to see how quickly the media assumes the public will forget.

Some of the most prominent members of Donald Trump’s MAGA army, including Ben Shapiro, were despairing after Democrats took back the House and Senate in the midterm elections

That’s certainly an interesting way to describe a die-hard “Never-Trumper”. Of course, “Trump” isn’t Trump.

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By All Means, Go!

The fake Donald Trump has announced that he will go to Israel since Americans are thoroughly sick of him, his antics, and his endless wars:

If You’re Sick of Me, I’ll Go Run Israel!!! Trump Says He Will Move to Israel to Become Prime Minister If U.S. Turns on Him

Donald Trump is already eyeing his next political gig … joking he’ll pack his bags and move to Israel to become prime minister if Americans ever get sick of him. The president floated the idea during an Election Day appearance on Fox News Tuesday … claiming he’s got a whopping 99% approval rating in Israel, which apparently has him feeling pretty confident about his chances overseas.

“In fact, if people ever got tired of me in the U.S., I’ll move to Israel, become prime minister,” Trump declared. Back home, though, Trump’s not feeling quite as much love … his approval rating sits at just 32%, a far cry from the 99% he’s claiming in Israel.

Good, he absolutely should go to Israel and he should take AIPAC, the neocons, Wall Street, the mainstream media, and Hollywood with him. Then they can go and worship their false gods and fight Iran to their hearts’ content.

Just leave Americans out of it.

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The Insane Plan

According to Tucker Carlson, this is the plan that the junior Senator from Connecticut described as “insane”.

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

The last thing Americans need or want is more war for Israel. But the fake Trump is an AIPAC construct, so the real question is how far American Jews are willing to risk further abusing and misusing their influence over the US military, because they are very well aware of the potential costs of the fallout for them when – not if – things go wrong.

And considering how far wrong everything has already gone for Israel and its supporters this year, the rational thing to do would be avoiding any further war. The problem is that there are no shortage of war hawks in Israel who actually think that the US retreating from the Middle East will be to the advantage of Greater Israel, and that the situation is a situation where heads Iran loses, tails the US loses, and both results are to Israel’s advantage.

Which, to be honest, doesn’t appear very likely, and many of the US military leaders clearly know it.

US President Donald Trump may scapegoat his defense and military chiefs for the state of the Iran war, according to a Sunday report, even as he considers resuming attacks on the country following the US midterm elections on Tuesday.

Trump reportedly clashed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over that question in a phone call over the weekend, the latest in a series of disagreements they have had about whether to attack. The premier — who is in a precarious position after losing his majority in the Knesset in Tuesday’s election — was said to have pushed for a return to strikes, while Trump favors giving more time to negotiations.

The war is deeply unpopular in the United States, and with no resolution to the conflict in sight, is expected to hurt Trump’s Republican Party in Tuesday’s votes for the US Congress. Oil prices have risen as Iran continues to obstruct shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Against that backdrop, according to The Atlantic magazine, Trump is looking for someone to blame for the course of the war and is speaking with advisers about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chair of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Both have been leading advocates of the war. Trump’s anger has reportedly grown since his advisers mistakenly assured him ahead of the war’s start in late February that it would be over long before the midterms.

So why would you listen again to those who were wrong the last three times. Especially in light of what some of the pollsters are observing: “For the first time in my lifetime, the polling is that Americans want AIPAC out and they don’t want to send any more money to Israel.”

UPDATE: Not too much doubt about where the Russians and the Chinese stand on more US military action in the Middle East. It is perhaps worth noting that the Russian Defense Minister happens to be visiting China now.

  • RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS SIGNALS OF PLANNED NEW MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN ARE CAUSING EXTREME CONCERN
  • Director Wang Yi has elaborated on China’s position on the situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region. China believes that military means are not the solution. They will only lead to escalation that serves no one’s interest. It is hoped that relevant parties will stick to peace, resolve disputes through dialogue and negotiation, and restore peace and tranquility in the Middle East and the Gulf region at an early date. – Mao Ning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

UPDATE: It could be a coincidence, but the U.S. Senator who issued the warning about the “insane plan” suffered what is being reported as a stroke the next day.

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The Decline in College Football Attendance

A few theories:

These are my top 5 reasons why college football attendance is dwindling:

  1. The death of regional games and rivalries. Too many schools are now in conferences that make no geographic sense. Having gone to Arizona State, seeing annual games with the LA, Bay Area, Oregon & Washington schools replaced w/ conference games against schools from Kansas, Texas, Florida, Ohio and West Virginia doesn’t resonate. This is being felt everywhere.
  2. Conference imbalance. We now have a world where the Big Ten and SEC are inherently favored for earning CFP bids and higher rankings before each season begins. The ACC and Big 12 are Tier 2 leagues, and the G6 schools are essentially in a separate class. This has produced an uneven, biased landscape that is entirely unfair.
  3. Noise pollution. I go to college football games to tailgate, watch football and listen to marching bands – not for blaring music and sound effects, hyperventilating PA announcers, and flashing light shows. The environment has been degraded.
  4. Expanded College Football Playoff. We’ve entered an era where if your school isn’t contending for a CFP bid, it’s playing out the string.
  5. The transfer portal. Annual free agency has many schools turning over rosters by more than 50-75%. The connections between players and fans has greatly eroded. Most fans can’t name 10 guys on their teams any more. That’s not ideal.

The sport needs more stability, the return of regional conferences, better game day atmospheres, and a more level playing field.

I’m of two minds about the recent changes, some of which have been good and some of which are obviously bad. First, I have to admit that I’m an NFL fan, not a college football fan. I do support the Golden Gophers, but very casually, and I haven’t attended a game since 1978. I’m not apologizing for refusing to attend games at the Metrodome; a worse atmosphere for college football would probably require a stadium built on the Moon.

The initial College Football Playoff and the inauguration of NIL were great and led to increased competitiveness inside and across the conferences. It was never good when Nebraska was beating Missouri 97-0 because the third-string offensive linemen for Nebraska were better than Missouri’s starters.

I think the problem is the superconferences and the short-sighted money people being too involved. Hopefully the pendulum will swing back in favor of tradition soon, before it is too late. That being said, I’ve watched more college football in the last two years than in the previous 30.

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Post-Midterm Retreat

Europeans are rightly concerned that the US military is going to further withdraw from NATO if the Republicans get hammered in the mid-term elections:

NATO is worried that Donald Trump could significantly reduce US involvement in the bloc if the Republican Party loses the midterms on November 3, Politico has reported, citing European officials and diplomats.

Officials in the military bloc are “bracing for a worst-case scenario” as a result of the vote on Tuesday, the outlet said in an article on Sunday.

If a victory for the Democrats blocks Trump from legislating domestically, he may decide to go after NATO to rally his MAGA base, diplomats told the outlet.

The US could withdraw thousands more troops from Europe, cut American funding for the bloc, or limit the NATO-backed PURL arms-buying scheme for Ukraine, they suggested.

Nothing has cost the Republican more votes than their enthusiasm for foreign adventures. That’s why gas and energy prices are out of control. And no one voted to defend Israel or Ukraine; US involvement in both wars is a complete negative for Americans. If the politicians weren’t wholly-owned by AIPAC, not a dime would be wasted on either.

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Haitian Invasion Update

Major Offensive by Salvadoran Commandos Against Armed Gangs in Forested Areas

Salvadoran special forces are said to have launched a major land and air military operation in the forested areas where several armed groups operating in Haiti have entrenched themselves. According to reports, around twenty gang members, including a leader known by the pseudonym “Commandant Galaxy,” are said to have been neutralized during this offensive.

The operation reportedly involved the use of drones and combat helicopters. Airstrikes are said to have targeted several fortified camps serving as rear bases for the armed groups, with the aim of dismantling their strategic positions. At the same time, commandos are said to have intervened at the residence of a gang leader nicknamed “Ezol.” This operation is said to have resulted in the liberation of 18 people held captive, including 12 young girls who are said to have been victims of sexual exploitation and used as leverage to extort ransoms from their families. A significant sum of money, estimated at over a million dollars, is also said to have been discovered inside the residence.

El Salvador Rejects Any Negotiation with Gang Leaders

In response to the intensification of operations, several gang leaders are said to have attempted to make contact with Salvadoran authorities to negotiate their departure from Haitian territory. A proposal that is said to have been categorically rejected by the President of El Salvador, who is said to have ordered the continuation of the offensive against the armed groups. On the ground, several criminal factions are said to be in flight, seeking refuge in forested areas. They are said to be tracked by surveillance drones and targeted by airstrikes carried out by combat helicopters.

An Operation Announced Until the Dismantlement of the Gangs

Salvadoran authorities are said to affirm that the operation will continue until security is restored and a normal situation returns in Haiti, without the presence of armed groups controlling territories. The Salvadorans are said to be welcomed by scenes of acclaim from certain populations, who see this intervention as a hope for regaining peace and security.

For now, the fate of the powerful gang leader known as “Barbecue” remains uncertain. He remains unlocated, as operations continue against the various armed groups.

Looks like a little mission creep might be creeping in. President Bukele may want to step in and remind those Salvadoran authorities that the mission is to a) retrieve their four citizens, b) kill those responsible, and c) return to El Salvador. Restoring a nonexistent security to Haiti is not going to happen without large-scale genocide.

This is exactly how the seeds of failure are often sown in victory.

Always slap down hard those commanders who get excited about the success of the mission and want to extend it. The irony is that those mission creepers were often naysayers about the original mission.

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