Reminder: the Crusades were a response to over 400 years of Islamic aggression against Christians and Europe. 632: Muhammad dies. 635: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Damascus. 636: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Antioch. 637: Muslims conquer the Holy Land. 639: Muslims conquer the first Christian country Armenia. 641: Muslims conquer the Coptic Christian country of Egypt. 650: Muslim armies reach southern Italy and Cyprus, taking thousands of captives as "slaves" and "concubines." 711: Muslims invade Spain, and by 715, they have overrun most of it. 717: Muslims besiege Constantinople but are repelled. 730: Muslims invade France, only to be stopped by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours. 792: The ruler of Al-Andalus calls for the invasion of France, and Muslim armies are assembled to attack it again, but they are repelled. 827: Muslims invade Sicily and Italy, persecuting monks. Sicily remains under Islamic rule until 1092. 846: Muslims invade Rome and force the Pope to pay tribute. 848: A third invasion of France occurs, and they are repelled for the third time. 909: Muslims occupy Sardinia. 937: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is burned down by Muslims, and more churches in Jerusalem are attacked. 1009: Destruction of the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem. 1012: Beginning of al-Hakim’s oppressive decrees against Christians. 1071: Muslim Turks attack the Byzantines and occupy much of Anatolia. 1094: Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos asks Western Christendom for help against Muslim Turkish invasions. 1095: Pope Urban II finally declares the First Crusade.

John Thune isn’t stupid or weak. He knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s cunning. You don’t rise to Senate Majority Leader if you’re stupid or weak. If he doesn’t get the SAVE America Act passed he’ll allow Dems to cheat. The actions of a traitor. Worse than Benedict Arnold.

I am fucking furious. Still. It's intensifying. I am motherfucking done with both these necrotic parties that have turned the Republic into a whorehouse where the Constitution gets gang-raped nightly and the only debate is which pimp gets the bigger cut. But the Republicans...oh, the Republicans. Those spineless, ball-less, invertebrate sacks of tactical faggotry. I reserve a special circle of hell for them. They didn’t just fail to fight; they held the door open, offered lube, and apologized for the inconvenience while the left sodomized every last institution we built. They watched the country get bent over the altar of “progress” and their only contribution was a strongly-worded press release, a fundraising email, and a performative prayer circle for the cameras. Pussies. Clinical, pathological pussies. Not the garden-variety yellow-belly pussification of ordinary men...no. This is a sophisticated, highly-evolved strain of moral cowardice that would make Nietzsche vomit. These are men who have internalized the enemy’s frame so completely they now police their own side for “extremism” while the other side burns the village down. They are not conservatives; they are managed opposition. Domesticated wolves who traded their fangs for 401(k)s, Fox News green rooms, and the warm approval of people who despise them. They don’t lack power. They lack the will to use it. And that, my darlings in rage, is the blackest pathology of all: the suicide of the strong by their own hand. Philosophy calls it acedia...the sloth of the soul that masquerades as prudence. I call it what it is: treason with better haircuts. I see blood because I see the autopsy of a civilization being performed in real time by people who swore an oath to protect it, then spent the next four decades negotiating the terms of its dismemberment. Every time a Republican “leader” lectures us about “democracy” while another federal agency is weaponized against us, another border is erased, another child is chemically castrated in the name of tolerance, another trillion is printed into the pockets of their donors...I feel the ancient Roman in me rising with a gladius and a simple question: When do we stop pretending these people are on our side? They aren’t. They are the polite face of the same metastatic cancer. The Democrats are the tumor that wants to kill the host quickly and loudly. The Republicans are the tumor that wants to kill it slowly, tastefully, while assuring the host it’s all perfectly legal and bipartisan. I loathe them with a purity that borders on religious. Not because they are evil in the cartoon sense, but because they are weak in the most dangerous way possible: the weakness that flatters itself as wisdom. The weakness that smiles, nods, and passes the next omnibus bill while Rome burns and they roast marshmallows on the flames. Fuck them. Fuck their “principles.” Fuck their “statesmanship.” Fuck their carefully calibrated outrage that always arrives two years too late and five degrees too polite. I will not let this go. I will carry this rage like a blade between my teeth until the day either the Republic is reborn in fire or I am lowered into the ground still snarling. There is no third option. There is no “both sides are bad so I’ll just grill.” There is only the cold, clear recognition that one side is actively destroying us and the other side is masturbating to the polling data while it happens. And history, that merciless bitch, will not record their careful excuses. She will record only the blood on their hands...and the fact that they washed them in the same sink as the people who held the knife. So here I am teeth bared, eyes full of murder-light. Not asking for permission. Just waiting for enough real men to finally admit what I already know in my marrow: The Republicans didn’t lose the country. They surrendered it. And I will never, ever forgive them for it. 💀⚖️🗡️

BREAKING: Justice Department announces it's readopting the firing squad as a means of execution

🔻 The Pope just told Trump to stop. Think about that. The leader of 1.4 billion Catholics — the first American-born Pope in history — went on global television and told the President of the United States to make peace with Iran. Trump's response? **"Terrible for foreign policy. A very liberal person. Weak on crime. Not doing a very good job."** He didn't whisper it. He didn't send a diplomat. He said it to the world. On the record. About the Pope. Why would a President risk the Catholic vote — 70 million Americans — to attack the Vatican? Because he knows something you don't. The Vatican Bank has processed over **$6 billion in unaudited transfers** since 2019. Funds routed through shell accounts in Malta, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands. Destinations unknown. Recipients classified. The same Vatican that hosted Epstein's financial advisor three times between 2011 and 2014. The same Vatican that fought harder to keep its bank records sealed than any government on Earth. The same Vatican that suddenly — right now, in the middle of a naval blockade — wants "peace." They don't want peace. **They want the blockade lifted before the audits begin.** Because when the Strait closes, the oil stops. When the oil stops, the petrodollar bleeds. When the petrodollar bleeds, every institution that laundered money through it gets exposed. Including the one in Rome. Trump didn't attack the Pope out of anger. He attacked the Pope because **the Pope attacked first** — not with words, but with a financial protection play disguised as a peace appeal. The cardinals went on 60 Minutes. Coordinated. Scripted. Timed to the hour. That's not faith. That's an operation. And the man in the Oval Office just told 1.4 billion people: **your institution is compromised, and I'm not stopping.** Gold — $4,728. Dollar — bleeding. Blockade — active. Vatican — panicking. **THE WALLS DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE.** CODE: VATICAN-6B / LEO-WEAK / HORMUZ-ACTIVE / AUDIT-PENDING / WALLS-DOWN ♟️