Posts by Mark Affleck
The four goals and outcomes
Discovery fishing into sources partial win; threat works, privilege shields most
Chilling future reporting wins; filing alone deters smaller outlets
Political signaling to base wins instantly; Fox coverage banked day one
Settlement/retraction he loses
Religion Poisons Everything
My congressman David Rouzer is BIG MAD about fertilizer prices.
He blames Hormuz “challenges.” Blames foreign traders. Blames the CFTC. Blames EPA red tape.
Know who he doesn’t blame?
Commander in chief is supposed to be in the room during a CSAR operation for a downed F-15E crew. That’s the Carter-in-1980 moment he was reportedly obsessing over. His own staff decided his presence was a liability during an active rescue
LMAO
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Pence, Sessions, Tillerson, Bolton, Kelly, Mattis, Barr, Esper, McMaster, Milley, Pompeo (eventually) every single one of them was “the best,” “tremendous,” “a real killer” until they weren’t.
The half-life on Trump loyalty is however long you’re useful minus one day.
How did 77M vote for him?” You cannot expose a voter to reporting they never see. The median Trump voter’s diet: Fox, Rogan, X algo, YouTube shorts, group chats. The NYT fact-check never arrived. The adversarial press model assumes a captive audience. That audience walked.
Obama deal had enforcement mechanisms, snapback sanctions, and multilateral backing. we bombed you, killed your Supreme Leader, you closed Hormuz, we paid you $20B to stop.
Obama’s “ransom” is now a loaded weapon pointed back at the White House.
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Macron. Zelensky. Carney. Now Pope Leo. Every independent moral voice gets measured against the genuflection standard and assigned a Fox segment when they fail. A pope saying war isn’t holy is now a “Trump-hating Democrat.” The world is tired. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Carnac says
Drone-proof ceilings,
ballistic glass, and
Top Secret Military Installations.
Name three things a President should never post on social media about his own ballroom.
Breaking: 25th Amendment exists for a reason. This is it.
The United States has officially opened a critical global chokepoint for China. As a gift. Because Xi sent a nice letter.
The president is now awaiting his hug. SMH
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Sotomayor makes one sharp comment, apologizes, and moves on. Kavanaugh clutches pearls. Meanwhile Trump calls judges “corrupt,” Alito gives partisan speeches, Thomas… exists. One side slips and corrects. The other trashes the judiciary daily. Spare me the outrage. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Fun fact:
There has never been a liberal dictator in recorded history. Zero. Every authoritarian consolidation trends right Franco, Pinochet, Mussolini, Orbán, Erdoğan. Military. Clergy. Capital. Ethnic grievance. Those are the levers of state power. Right movements get handed the keys.
Why we started the war?
121 empty tankers steaming to the Gulf Coast.
This isn’t energy dominance.
Start conflict. Block Hormuz. Control the alternative. Sell American oil at crisis prices.
The war was the sales infrastructure. en.cibercuba.com/noticias/202...
WH is full of fifth graders go speak to them about how their immature actions impact fifth graders
TACO will appear tomorrow to refute his tirade about his recent comments
Second Epistle of Peter warned about leaders selling identity over truth and followers defending contradictions.
Totally unrelated to Donald Trump, of course.
As an atheist i’m not surprised with how
“Religion poison everything”
Christopher Hitchen
US media is structurally incentivized to wait for official permission to cover these stories that make national security apparatus look incompetent or compromised. The British press has no such incentive. Americans will get the news weeks later.
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Also meet Balázs Orbán. Age 40. No relation to Viktor. Chairman of MCC a $1.7B organization funded by Russian oil that trained the MAGA network.
Hungary just voted Orbán out.
MCC is still running.
Learn this name:
A covert network looks like when it wears a blazer and calls itself a university.
Mathias Corvinus Collegium. (MCC)
This is your 911 call.
No election touches it.
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God is not Great
We're living through the doom loop once again.
Umm “Superior religion”
“Religion poisons everything”
Christopher Hitchen
"A well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio"
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Source (video not split here):
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Melania’s “surprise” Epstein denial wasn’t triggered breaking news.
El Pais ran Ungaro’s story March 25
NYT ran the Zampolli/ICE story March 20.
She waited 3 weeks — then moved only when Ungaro went viral on X.
That’s not getting ahead of a story.
That’s getting caught by one.
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Federal judge just called Hegseth’s press suppression “autocracy, not democracy.” The Framers didn’t flee the Crown to build a Christian nationalist Pentagon. Your freedom FROM government religion is the 1st Amendment’s core promise. Hegseth is shredding both. #EpicFury www.npr.org/2026/03/20/n...