Democrats have decided they need to use thirst traps in order to win the midterm elections. Now you may be asking yourself, “What’s a thirst trap?” or “What’s an election?” or “Who is that woman in bed next to me and why is there blood everywhere?” Because that’s the sort of audience I attract. And to be honest, I can only answer some of those questions.
A thirst trap is a social media post with a photo or video designed to catch your attention by showing you something attractive and sexy. And Democrats are looking for sexually attractive candidates to catch your attention and make you think, wow, it’s so hot the way they pretend to be socialists who would only destroy our economy to hide the fact they’re actually Islamists who want to murder us all.
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For instance, Democrats feel if muscular Michigan Senate candidate and terrorist sympathizer Abdul El-Sayed hits the campaign trail wearing tight t-shirts, he might attract the kind of women who would otherwise forget to vote because they’re too busy writing love letters to Luigi Mangione.
Or maybe spindly little Georgia Senate Candidate Jon Ossoff could give speeches in an open-neck shirt to attract large muscular homosexuals who were recently released from prison and are looking for a new b*tch. Or Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might appear dressed in a bizarrely low-cut nun’s habit entirely made of latex while carrying a whip and a lighted cigarette — or maybe that was just a dream I had. Then I woke up screaming, thinking I’d voted for AOC. Brrrr.
Anyway, in a series of tests funded by the Democratic National Committee, potential female voters were shown a picture of El-Sayed flexing his biceps, followed by a picture of Senator Chuck Schumer trying to stand up straight and pretend he still has a soul. The women were then asked:
<blockquote>Would you be willing to destroy 250 years of American liberty and prosperity for fifteen minutes of having El-Sayed tear off your burka while you scream &#8216;Take me, take me, you steaming hunk of Islamist garbage,&#8217; or would you prefer to just go on and on in your drab day to day life where every evening your daydreams are shattered when Chuck Schumer comes through the door calling out, &#8216;Hi, Honey, I’m home,&#8217; until every dream you ever had of romance and adventure withers and dies?</blockquote>
In 68% of the cases, the female Democrats said they would gladly vote for the handsome El-Sayed as long as he promised to bring back the patriarchy, which actually, now that they think about it, was kind of great.
The Democrats then wanted to test pictures of attractive female candidates on potential male voters. Unfortunately, I’d already made an AOC joke, and every other female Democrat either looks like a used boot or has a mouth on her that makes you want to become a celibate monk in a religious retreat run by a nun wearing the low-cut latex habit she got from the old AOC joke.
Finally, desperate to find a pretty Democrat woman for their study, the DNC showed male voters a photograph of Krystal Ball, the Democrat beauty whose 2010 Virginia congressional campaign ended in scandal when pictures surfaced of her dressed in a sexy Santa outfit while wrapping her lips around a sex toy strapped to the nose of her then-husband. Ninety-five percent of the men said they would gladly vote for the catastrophe of socialism if they could just become a sex toy strapped to the nose of Krystal Ball’s former husband, even if only in their imaginations. In fact, some of the male voters said they might even vote for communism if Chuck Schumer would just stop coming through their wife’s door, calling out, “Hi, Honey, I’m home.”
But the Democrats’ obsession with finding attractive candidates is not just a reflection of their shallow and perverted notion of sexuality with its propensity for meaningless, fetishistic hookups. Democrat leaders feel that if they can enlist candidates with a youthful, vibrant aura, it will return them to their glory days when voters were swept away by the sex appeal of Barack Obama because he destroyed the American health care system with such macho vitality, you could almost believe he was straight.

DNC Pivots To Tactical Thirst Traps To Make Socialism Look Sexy

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Florida students are heading back to school this year with a new addition to their history curriculum: a comprehensive study of communism, including its history, domestic movements, and the atrocities committed by communist regimes.
The new standards are the culmination of a five-year effort by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers to expand civics education and ensure students learn about the dangers of totalitarian ideologies.
The effort began in 2021, when DeSantis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-signs-law-requiring-students-to-learn-evils-of-communism-real-patriots-who-escaped-it">signed a package</a> of legislation overhauling civics education in Florida. One of those measures required high school students to receive instruction comparing political ideologies such as communism and totalitarianism with the principles of freedom and democracy underlying the American founding. The legislation also created the state&#8217;s “Portraits in Patriotism” initiative, which uses the stories of people who fled persecution in countries including Cuba and Venezuela to teach students about the value of American liberty.
In 2022, DeSantis signed legislation <a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/desantis-signs-law-requiring-lessons-on-victims-of-commmunism-in-florida-schools">establishing</a> Victims of Communism Day in Florida. Beginning in the 2023-24 school year, public schools were required to provide at least 45 minutes of instruction addressing communist regimes and the suffering of their victims, including poverty, starvation, migration, political violence, and the suppression of speech and religion.
Then, in 2024, DeSantis signed <a href="https://www.flgov.com/eog/news/press/2024/governor-desantis-signs-legislation-further-enhancing-floridas-education-standards">Senate Bill 1264</a>, expanding the state&#8217;s existing requirements to include the history of communism in the United States, domestic communist movements and their tactics, as well as the atrocities committed by communist regimes around the world. 
“We’re going to tell the truth about communism in the state of Florida. We’re going to tell the truth about the evils of communism,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-communism-education-courses-in-florida-public-schools">said</a> when signing the legislation in 2024.
The State Board of Education <a href="https://www.fldoe.org/newsroom/latest-news/state-board-of-education-approves-new-history-of-communism-standards-.stml">approved</a> the resulting History of Communism standards in November 2025, with implementation beginning during the 2026-27 school year. The standards are designed to extend across the K-12 curriculum, with the state emphasizing that instruction will be age-appropriate at each grade level. Then-Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas said at the time, “With the resurgence of communist ideologies across the United States and throughout the world, it is more important than ever for students to understand the catastrophic failures and human suffering caused by communist regimes.&#8221;
The curriculum will cover more than the familiar history of the Soviet Union. It includes communism&#8217;s development in the United States, domestic communist movements, the tactics used by communist organizations, and the consequences of communist rule internationally. It also requires students to compare communism and totalitarianism with the principles of freedom and democracy that underpin the American system of government. 
The reforms have particular resonance in South Florida, where generations of Cuban, Venezuelan, and Nicaraguan immigrants have personal or family histories of fleeing communist and socialist regimes. When DeSantis signed the 2024 legislation, he was joined by veterans of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. 
“The most important fight against communism is the one that’s done in the schoolrooms,” Rafael Montalvo, president of the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association, said at the time. “That’s where the battle is happening right now.” 
Florida&#8217;s effort represents a sustained attempt to make anti-communism and civic literacy a formal part of public education rather than leaving those lessons to individual teachers or schools.
As students return to classrooms for the 2026-27 school year, the reforms that began with DeSantis&#8217; 2021 civics push are finally becoming a regular part of what Florida students are taught about America&#8217;s founding principles — and the ideologies that have historically opposed them.

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Reading, Writing, Communism: Inside New Curriculum Teaching Kids About Evil

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Let’s check in on the People’s Republic of New York City.
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— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2088794669673050489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Oh. An announcement of 2,000 free Broadway tickets for NYC public high school students, delivered in Mandarin. How thoughtful. How necessary. Never mind that our commander-in-chief signed an executive order making English the official language of these United States!
No need for the subtitles, Mr. Mayor. Maybe just get the kids a free Duolingo subscription instead. To each according to his needs.
The communist, terror-sympathizing tyrant of New York City will wave this off as a cute, harmless, inclusive gesture for the children, of course. But it&#8217;s more nefarious than that; it&#8217;s one more brick in his anti-American crusade to subvert every ideal this country was built on.
These &#8220;free&#8221; tickets, donated seats from producers who already sell out to tourists anyway, are just Mamdani&#8217;s latest chance to redistribute what he didn&#8217;t earn and call it &#8220;justice for the theater kids.&#8221; Every New Yorker should be able to afford Broadway, he says. Should they? I didn&#8217;t realize a night at the theater was a constitutional right. I thought I had a right to work hard, keep what I earn, and spend it how I choose, but apparently that one&#8217;s negotiable now.
This is peak Mamdani: a cutesy social post papering over a very expensive habit. Nothing he hands out is actually free.
His &#8220;free buses&#8221; would run the city $1.1 billion a year, and fares have gone up anyway. His &#8220;free childcare&#8221; plan is pegged at $6 billion, with outside estimates already creeping toward $9 billion, because they always do. (But trust him, sending your pride and joy off with a government employee to a park is so worth the tax hike.) His &#8220;free housing&#8221; push is set to produce 180 &#8220;affordable&#8221; units, for a finished price tag of $22 billion. (Somebody remind me why rent just hit a record $6,655 a month?) And don&#8217;t forget the pending Delivery Protection <a href="https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2086883269610541325">Act</a>, which punishes Amazon subcontractors for the crime of subcontracting. Enjoy the higher delivery fee, Bezos Baddies.
The theater, the bus, the rent, the children — the mayoralty has deemed them a right and bequeathed you a bill.
Some may think I’m being too cynical about the Broadway Bash, but that’s because I know it’s bread and circuses. He has a plan, and he’s following it to the letter. He’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gotham-citys-bane-is-every-dsa-candidates-final-form">Bane</a> with a <a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/03/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-takes-124649047.jpg?resize=681,1024&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all">bow tie</a>. At a 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference, then-Assemblyman Mamdani was explicit: student debt cancellation was fine to campaign on, but socialists also need to organize around the less popular causes, like Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) — the campaign that would love to see Israel wiped off the map — and &#8220;the end goal of seizing the means of production.&#8221;
Where have I heard that one before…
The network around this Marxist mayor makes the rhetoric a lot less abstract. Neville Roy Singham, the Shanghai-based billionaire Marxist, has poured hundreds of millions into left-wing nonprofits that reliably echo Chinese Communist Party talking points, and his family has done campaign work for Mamdani. Singham himself, like plenty of Mamdani&#8217;s other allies, invokes Mao, calls Western capitalism &#8220;fascism,&#8221; and pushes a &#8220;new world order&#8221; narrative that quietly erases America&#8217;s role in defeating actual fascism in World War II.
Which is why a Marxist delivering a speech in Mandarin should unsettle you: China&#8217;s communist history is not abstract; it&#8217;s tangibly terrifying. The Great Leap Forward produced the deadliest famine on record. The Cultural Revolution delivered mass persecution and economic ruin. One-party rule continues today. Soft-power language outreach and redistributionist policy deserve a little more scrutiny when they&#8217;re coming from Maoists and more broadly from America-haters.
Mamdani speaks Mandarin to signal that you don&#8217;t need to assimilate to this oppressive, colonizing country! Stay as un-American as possible, in fact. He sure is. The Ugandan native released a video slamming America as a &#8220;nation of contradictions&#8221; on her birthday, from behind George Washington&#8217;s desk. He published a &#8220;target list&#8221; naming and addressing New York&#8217;s &#8220;100 worst landlords&#8221; alongside thousands of New Yorkers who own second homes in the city. He said the boots of the NYPD are laced by the IDF. His father wrote a book blaming 9/11 on the United States. He&#8217;s been photographed with an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing. And families of 9/11 victims have made clear they don&#8217;t want him anywhere near this year&#8217;s 25th anniversary ceremony.
He does not like it here, and he is trying to tear it down with a Marxist sandwich: promise something good, then say and do things that quietly wreck the place underneath it. 
To be fair, the champagne socialist also posted the ticket announcement in Spanish. They say he speaks seven languages. He must have picked that up somewhere between the $70,000-a-year progressive private school on the Upper West Side and the $50,000-plus-a-year liberal arts college in Maine. Thank goodness all that education is finally paying off in the public sector, where he does nothing but lecture, pose for photos, and redistribute other people&#8217;s money in the name of social welfare.
The polished videos, the permanent Joker smile, the quiet confidence that no one will connect the multilingual theater giveaways to the man who once called seizing the means of production an end goal.
Welcome to the CCP of NYC.

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Comedians Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis trashed communism on Rogan&#8217;s podcast Thursday — then argued in the same breath that Americans should get free healthcare, with Rogan calling billionaire wealth &#8220;the problem with capitalism.&#8221;
Gillis said free healthcare &#8220;would be a good move&#8221; during the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBH4F5a6zAA&amp;t=10697s">episode</a> — and argued that supporting it does not make someone a communist. Rogan agreed. The two were joined by fellow comedians Mark Normand and Ari Shaffir.
&#8220;Communism is the gayest sh*t ever,&#8221; Gillis said. &#8220;Somebody needs to look into how gay communism is.&#8221;
&#8220;But isn&#8217;t it crazy that it&#8217;s making a comeback?&#8221; Rogan asked. &#8220;It always does. It&#8217;s a cycle.&#8221;
&#8220;The problem is if we could not call it communism if we get free healthcare,&#8221; Gillis added. &#8220;That would be a good move. We&#8217;re calling everybody communists. Free healthcare is cool. We should have that. That&#8217;s not communism. Communism is no private property.&#8221;
Rogan agreed, saying, &#8220;We should treat the whole country like it&#8217;s a community. If you have a community, would you want the sickest person to f*cking die, who could be very valuable if you could take care of them, if you have the resources to take care of them? You should take care of them.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the problem with capitalism, this is the reason people turn on all these billionaires,&#8221; Rogan added. &#8220;They turn on them because [they say], &#8216;Why do you have so much when people have so little?&#8217; But it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the game, it&#8217;s the game that they&#8217;re playing, and you&#8217;re playing the game to — you&#8217;re just not playing it at that level.&#8221;
Normand then pushed back a little on Rogan&#8217;s statement.
&#8220;But again, these rich people pay a lot [in taxes] and give a lot of services,&#8221; Normand said.
&#8220;There&#8217;s that, but also the services, the amount of money they get, is all going to corrupt people that are funneling it into their own bank accounts. That&#8217;s the problem with it all,&#8221; Rogan replied.
Free healthcare of the sort Rogan and Gillis described already exists across the developed world, with mixed results. In Canada, where taxpayers fund the system, the median wait for a family doctor&#8217;s referral to treatment was 28.6 weeks in 2025 — the second longest on record — according to the Fraser Institute. Nearly 6 million Canadian adults have no regular family doctor at all, a survey by St. Michael&#8217;s Hospital and the Canadian Medical Association found. In England, the National Health Service backlog stood at roughly 7.1 million cases this spring, and the health service has not met its 18-week treatment standard since 2016.
Rogan, who describes himself as politically independent, endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in the 2020 Democratic primary and endorsed President Donald Trump on the eve of the 2024 election. Sanders even endorsed one of Rogan&#8217;s healthcare takes last year.
&#8220;I think healthcare 100% should be socially funded. I think that Medicare and Medicaid — having programs where people who are hurt can get an operation, and it&#8217;s not going to bankrupt them for the rest of their life,&#8221; Rogan said in March 2025, adding, &#8220;It should be a part of our agreement to take care of each other as a community, that we chip in money for what people would think of as socialist positions.&#8221;
&#8220;Joe Rogan is absolutely right about this,&#8221; Sanders said.
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Joe Rogan, Shane Gillis Agree Communism Is ‘The Gayest Sh*t Ever’ — But ‘Free Healthcare Is Cool’

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A nearly eight-year-old clip of Charlie Kirk ripping Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker&#8217;s communist dream went viral on social media again this week.
In the exchange, which took place during a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIKm-cOdh0">Politicon debate</a> in Los Angeles on October 20, 2018 — the pair&#8217;s second meeting at the convention — Kirk asked Piker why he doesn&#8217;t live by the communist vision he calls for America to embrace.
&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you give 95% of your money away and go live on a commune?&#8221; Kirk asked the America-hating communist streamer.
&#8220;Do you really think that that&#8217;s how it works?&#8221; Piker replied.
&#8220;Why not? Go live what you preach,&#8221; Kirk said as Piker attempted to interrupt the Turning Point USA founder.
&#8220;I live what I practice,&#8221; Kirk added. &#8220;I am a free-market capitalist, I employ people, I took a risk, I have my own start-up business. Every single day, I practice what I preach. He wants other people to contribute to what he considers to be a good idea, what he considers will make the world a better place.&#8221;
&#8220;You have the freedom to go live as a socialist. Go do it, Hasan. What&#8217;s stopping you?&#8221;
Piker called the exchange &#8220;absolutely preposterous.&#8221; &#8220;If I gave away the measly earnings that I had and gave away 95% of that,&#8221; he began — before Kirk cut in to ask, &#8220;How much do you make, Hasan?&#8221; — &#8220;that wouldn&#8217;t necessarily even push the needle.&#8221;
&#8220;I will be very honest, it&#8217;s really embarrassing especially because my boss is sitting right there, I make $60,000 a year, okay? And that&#8217;s a really good salary.&#8221;
The exchange devolved when Cenk Uygur — Piker&#8217;s uncle and, at the time, his boss at The Young Turks — began shouting at Kirk from the audience, demanding to know Kirk&#8217;s own salary.
&#8220;I live like a capitalist every single day, Cenk,&#8221; Kirk said. &#8220;I practice what I preach. You do not practice what you preach.&#8221;
Pressed on his own pay, Kirk answered: &#8220;Less than Hasan, so you can check it yourself.&#8221;
The debate was just one of many examples of how Kirk stood for conservative principles in some of the most radical leftist environments.
On September 10, 2025, Kirk was assassinated while speaking on the campus of Utah Valley University. The Turning Point USA founder was shot while taking a question about transgender mass shooters. According to charging documents, the suspected gunman texted his roommate and trans-identifying lover afterward: &#8220;I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can&#8217;t be negotiated out.&#8221;
Since the debate with Kirk in 2018, Piker has gained fame among the far-Left, and he has even been embraced by some in the Democratic Party, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). This year, Piker has campaigned with Democratic House and Senate candidates in New York and Michigan, including Michigan Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who is hoping to become the first Muslim U.S. senator.
Piker&#8217;s earnings have grown considerably since. Fox Business host Charles Payne <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6403267383112">put his net worth at $35</a> million on air Wednesday, though public estimates vary widely, with Celebrity Net Worth listing roughly $8 million. What isn&#8217;t in dispute is the $2.7 million West Hollywood home — a long way from the commune.
In an April New York Times podcast, Piker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/socialists-have-made-a-new-crime-into-a-form-of-protest">said</a> he&#8217;s &#8220;pro stealing from big corporations, because they steal quite a bit more from their own workers,&#8221; and added that while he doesn&#8217;t shoplift himself, &#8220;if someone needs the food, they should absolutely steal it.&#8221;
Piker has praised murderous Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong and has argued that America &#8220;deserved 9/11.&#8221; In March 2025, Piker was temporarily suspended from the streaming platform Twitch — his fifth suspension from the site — after saying that if Republicans cared about entitlement fraud, &#8220;you would kill Rick Scott.&#8221;

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FLASHBACK: Watch Charlie Kirk Expose Absurdity Of Hasan Piker’s Communist Dream

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Should We Be Afraid Of Hasan Piker? No, that gives the Twitch streamer too much power. But would I rather share a cave with a colony of rabid bats than share a room with him? Absolutely. Every single time.
Last week Rolling Stone dropped a pure fluff soufflé on Hasan Piker, the China-smitten communist creature who despises this country and everything capitalism built. No surprise, given the magazine&#8217;s track record. It&#8217;s spent years glazing up characters like Sean &#8220;Puffy&#8221; Combs, the alleged sex trafficker; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon Bomber; and Charles Manson, the cult leader. At this point, you can trust anyone Rolling Stone tarnishes. The second they run a glowing profile? Run.
The <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/hasan-piker-twitch-stream-midterms-1235604577/">title</a>: “Why Is Everyone Scared of Hasan Piker?”
Subtitle: His incendiary clips about Israel have drawn fire from both sides of the aisle. But what he wants, he insists, is simply to make people listen.
Aww. He just wants to be heard. Like a loud little boy on the playground demanding the other kids stop playing and admire his tantrum.
Right at the top sits this gem of subtext: “Piker is a matinee-handsome progressive icon who’s uniquely talented at translating radical-left politics for Gen Z bros.”
Matinee-handsome? Like Cary Grant or Rock Hudson — the golden-age heartthrobs? Curious choice of photo, then. The one they ran looks more like a graying, hirsute Scooby-Doo villain whose glasses somehow managed to stay crooked through the entire photoshoot. But perhaps “matinee” now just means “owns a ring light.” I digress.
What’s unnerving is not the male author’s thirsty prose about Piker’s jawline. It’s how the broader Left has stopped merely tolerating his anti-American rhetoric, destructive policies, and would-be dictator cosplay, and started glamorizing them.
Hasan Piker is a poison that progressives and their pet Politburos are happily chugging by the gallon.
We came so close to an America-free Hasan. He’s the textbook anchor-baby product. Neither parent was a citizen when he was born in New Jersey, and after his birth the family immediately packed up and returned to Turkey, where he grew up. Summers brought him back to visit non-citizen grandparents, where the only things that impressed him about the United States were the Oreo flavors and free refills. He “f*cking hates the government,” yet happily enrolled at the University of Miami to party, club, and tank his grades before transferring to Rutgers. Then the family connection came in clutch, securing him a job at uncle Cenk’s radical outfit &#8220;The Young Turks.&#8221; Talking into a camera for 14 hours a day turned into a multi-million-dollar annual haul, a lavish L.A. townhouse, a Mercedes, and a full-time career dedicated to dismantling the very country that handed him the keys.
Consider this a living refutation of birthright tourism. Look what it let in the door.
Hasan Piker’s favorite flag is Hezbollah’s — the terrorist group responsible for the brutal deaths of hundreds of American service members. He has declared Hamas — the Sunni terrorists who murdered more than 1,200 Israeli civilians and over 40 Americans on October 7 and have killed U.S. citizens in multiple bombings — “a thousand times better than Israel.” Both groups view America as the Great Satan. So, apparently, does Piker, who once announced that America “deserved” 9/11 and that <a href="https://x.com/Tectone/status/2086115837589459365/video/1">American soldiers are simply cattle to Iran, who deserve to be shot at.</a>
Remember, this clown campaigns with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The Avengers, if the Avengers hated the good guys and loved the villains.
Speaking of which, this self-described Marxist is in love with China and one of its most murderous tyrants, Mao Zedong — a man responsible for tens of millions of deaths. Piker calls his deadly idol &#8220;one of the great leaders of this world&#8221; who &#8220;changed the entire universe,&#8221; cosplays the look in identical Zhongshan suits, and pays tribute to his cherished dictator by hanging the CCP flag, samurai swords, and revolutionary art in his recording studio.
I hear China is lovely this time of year. He should go. Permanently.
He will not, of course, because the capitalist in him is doing too well. Behold the delicious paradox of the self-proclaimed Marxist who loathes America and capitalism yet runs a wildly profitable one-man content empire built entirely on private platforms, voluntary subscriptions, and the exact surplus extraction he spends every stream denouncing. He owns the cameras, the brand, the schedule, and the equity. His mostly young audience funds the lifestyle.
What a bigoted oligarch!
Piker has said, on this content empire, that he would love to see “capitalist motherf*ckers bleed out in the streets” — yet somehow that revolutionary bloodlust never reaches his own father, a former vice president of a multi-billion-dollar Turkish conglomerate, or himself. He excuses their wealth because he “advocates for the poor.” Does he? He has written checks for Turkish-Syrian earthquake relief and Palestinian fundraisers, of course, but America’s own impoverished? That would be silly.
Classic Marxist millionaire. Endlessly eager to tell the government how to spend your money, allergic to practicing any of it himself.
He could liquidate the $5,000 designer fits, the $10,000 dual-sport motorcycle, the Cartier frames, or the multi-million-dollar gated L.A. mansion he bragged about in the Rolling Stone piece. Instead, he preaches revolution from behind the high shrubs, daydreaming aloud about “impoverishing the white middle class” (which his Marxist policies would accomplish with ruthless efficiency).
He won’t discriminate on class alone; he’s targeting race as well. He has voiced a desire to “destroy the white race, b*tch.” And black Americans fare no better in his worldview; he has declared he “doesn’t give a f*ck what black people care about” and suggested they should “suck” him where the sun don’t shine. He also cheered that “we want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna f*ck your sisters and then your daughters.”
Sheesh. A real peach, isn’t he? The kind we should priority ship overnight to Cuba so he can finally live out the revolutionary he masquerades as.
All this dirtbag offers is performative virtue. A pathetic nerd who has never built anything except a personal brand, pays almost no one beyond a lone producer, supports no dependents, or has never created any real jobs. He simply harvests America’s free markets, complains about America nonstop, and helps elevate candidates who share the same contempt. From each according to his ability. Right Marxy? Well, his ability is limited. His capacity for damage is not.
Though he imagines himself a brilliant trailblazer finally cracking the socialist code, he is neither unique nor special. He is the latest iteration of the young, privileged, rich socialist idealist who has helped midwife communist disasters for a century. Like the privileged students and intellectuals of 1917 Petrograd or the campus-bred Red Guards of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, he grew up with family advantages, enjoyed the consumer abundance and educational opportunities of a free-market society, then turned that platform into a lucrative personal brand while preaching the abolition of the very system that made him wealthy.
He controls his own means of production yet spends his days radicalizing Gen Z listeners against private property, capitalism, and America itself. And he’s gaining popularity, just like the Bolsheviks did with their lies. History is unambiguous about what follows: once the romantic phase demoralizes the existing order and captures the institutions, the hard men take over, the purges begin, and the gulags fill with both the original class enemies and plenty of the useful idealists who thought they were constructing utopia.
Piker’s mansion, nicotine pouches, and multi-million-dollar streams offer no immunity. They are merely the modern comforts of the useful idiot who opens the door and discovers the revolution has no further need of him or his dog.
This is the man Rolling Stone is platforming.
This is the man Democrats are campaigning alongside.
This is the awkward, foul-mouthed terrorist sympathizer the Left is now calling “Eugene Debs who deadlifts.” Barf.
This is why birth tourism should be ended. 
Piker is “pushing towards his vision” for the future “with a little pickaxe,” “Mining away in his cave.” Democrats are supplying him with TNT. When the whole mountain collapses on them, at least the rest of us will get to say we told you so.

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Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson held a campaign event co-hosted by an activist who has written extensively for the Communist Party USA, adding another unusual chapter to a Democratic Senate campaign already marked by a series of controversies.
Lorri Nandrea of Canton was listed as one of four hosts of a June 5 campaign brunch for Jackson at the Local 14 Solidarity Center in Jay, Maine, according to an invitation reviewed by the <a href="https://www.themainewire.com/2026/08/communist-party-usa-writer-co-hosted-campaign-event-for-democratic-senate-nominee-troy-jackson/">Maine Wire</a>. At the time, Jackson was running for governor. He is now the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate and will face Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November in a race that will help determine control of the Senate.
The invitation described the event as a “Brunch with Troy Jackson” and said the four hosts — Nandrea, Linda Deane, Cynthia Phinney, and Jimmy McHugh — had known Jackson for years and “worked with him on important legislation that we believe makes Maine a better place to live.”
The Communist Party USA’s website maintains an <a href="https://www.cpusa.org/authors/lorri-nandrea/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">author page</a> for Nandrea listing four articles she has written for the organization: “Waking class consciousness today,” “Why fixing capitalism is not enough,” “Killer capitalism vs. green socialism,” and “Unions are more popular: How does this translate into action?” Communist Party USA has also referenced Nandrea as <a href="https://cpusa.org/article/tightening-up-our-club-and-district-organization/">recently as 2025</a>. 
It&#8217;s unclear if Nandrea was a member of Communist Party USA when she co-hosted Jackson’s event.
Jackson became the Democratic nominee on July 25 after Maine Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-party-bosses-crown-new-nominee-to-replace-graham-platner">selected him</a> to replace Graham Platner, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/graham-platner-ends-senate-bid-with-profane-political-message">withdrew from the race</a> following an allegation of sexual assault that he has denied. Jackson, a former Maine Senate president from northern Maine, will now take on Collins in one of the Democrats’ most closely watched Senate challenges.
For Democrats, the episode may feel like déjà vu. Among Platner&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maine-senate-candidate-graham-platner-socialist-group-linked-to-ice-attack-tesla-bombings">earliest controversies</a> was his past identification with communism and the resurfacing of his involvement with the Socialist Rifle Association. Platner then faced scrutiny over a Nazi tattoo along with other profane past statements.
Jackson had campaigned alongside Platner during the earlier campaign and emerged as the replacement nominee after Platner’s withdrawal. Jackson has now sought to present himself as a working-class alternative to Collins, emphasizing his background as a logger from rural Aroostook County and his decades in Maine Democratic politics.
But as Jackson asks Maine voters to send him to the U.S. Senate, the political network behind his candidacy will inevitably come under greater scrutiny. That leaves Jackson with a straightforward question to answer: What did he know about Nandrea’s political background, and what role, if any, has she played in his campaign beyond the June event?

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Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is warning Democrats that Republicans’ “anti-communist” messaging could sink socialist candidates and jeopardize the party’s chances of retaking control of Congress.
During a podcast appearance with liberal tech journalist Kara Swisher, Clinton <a href="https://x.com/JasonJournoDC/status/2085827221457895678?s=20">raised concerns</a> about the electability of Abdul El-Sayed, who narrowly defeated establishment-backed Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s heated Democratic Senate primary.
“You&#8217;re not going to convince Republican voters in Michigan, and the real fight will be how do we make sure that people who voted for Haley feel comfortable voting for Abdul El-Sayed, and how do we get independents to feel comfortable?” Clinton asked. “And you can see that it&#8217;s not just about Michigan, but the Republican messaging is communist, socialist. It&#8217;s going to be a very effective attack.” 
Over the weekend, the White House previewed its <a href="https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2086533464547868826?s=20">midterm messaging campaign</a> with a highlight reel of El-Sayed’s most controversial views, calling communist ideology a “direct threat” to the country and drawing a contrast between what the administration described as a “vision for two very different Americas.”
Midterms aside, a recent <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/30/most-americans-would-not-support-democratic-socialist-president-poll-finds/">Washington Post poll</a> found that 55% of Americans would not consider voting for a socialist-backed presidential candidate — a political reality Clinton is urging her party not to ignore.
“So people on the Left have to be prepared to answer that and to be effective at answering it,” Clinton said. “All I know is that&#8217;s the attack that Trump is leading with, and I assume they&#8217;ve tested it, and I assume that they have reason to believe that it&#8217;s effective, or they wouldn&#8217;t be beating the drum on it because now it&#8217;s not just him. Vance has done it; others are doing it. They are trying to, you know, bring back scare tactics about our candidates.” 
Since President Donald Trump’s re-election, the Democratic establishment has watched its leftist wing barnstorm the country, racking up one victory after another. Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s upset in New York City’s mayoral primary kicked off the movement’s breakthrough, followed by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdanis-socialists-upset-incumbent-dems-in-house-primary-sweep">three Democratic Socialists of America-backed leftists</a> ousting longtime Democratic representatives. 
Socialists also steamrolled their way through <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-trashes-the-socialist-poised-to-be-next-mayor-of-d-c">Washington, D.C.,</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/socialist-hot-streak-continues-as-radical-leftist-unseats-15-term-democrat?author=Brecca+Stoll&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Socialist+Hot+Streak+Continues+As+Radical+Leftist+Unseats+15-Term+Democrat">Denver.</a> In battleground Michigan, El-Sayed’s narrow victory was powered by young, college-educated white voters, pitting the Democratic Party’s far-Left base against its older, black, and working-class voters — while delivering the socialist movement its biggest electoral victory yet.
On NBC’s Meet the Press, El-Sayed appeared dismissive of his close campaign ties to the leftist streamer Hasan Piker, who has said America deserved the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/el-sayed-shrugs-off-hasan-pikers-9-11-comments?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=El-Sayed+Shrugs+Off+Hasan+Piker%E2%80%99s+9%2F11+Comments">9/11 terrorist attacks.</a>
“Of course, of course, it was a dumb statement, and of course, I think Hasan himself would say that was a dumb statement. He disavowed it. So yes, America didn’t deserve 9/11,” El-Sayed said, but then immediately pivoted to qualify his remarks, suggesting that continued focus on Piker’s remarks amounted to “cancel culture.”
“I want to be held accountable for what I say and what I do, rather than this idea that we’re so stuck in cancel culture that all of us agreed was a bad idea back in 2020, but we seem to want to bring back,” he added.
Natalie Baldassarre, a national press secretary for the Republican National Committee (RNC), blasted El-Sayed’s connection to Piker. 
“El-Sayed is a terrorist sympathizer and an America-hating socialist. His refusal to distance himself from Hamas-hugging radicals like Hasan Piker reaffirms his true allegiance is to terrorist groups, not America,” Baldassarre said in a statement to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/el-sayed-shrugs-off-hasan-pikers-9-11-comments?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=El-Sayed+Shrugs+Off+Hasan+Piker%E2%80%99s+9%2F11+Comments">The Daily Wire.</a> “Democrats’ refusal to disavow this clown shows they either share his poisonous ideology or they’re too cowardly to confront it.”
Cook Political Report ranks the Michigan Senate race as a toss-up. 
“When you have an effective candidate on the Left, it still is going to be a close race on our side,” Clinton warned.

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Last month, Karen and I welcomed our sixth grandchild — a beautiful baby girl — into our family and into the world. Looking into her big blue eyes, we are filled with an inexpressible joy for another precious gift from God.
But holding her in my arms also makes me think about the country she and all our grandchildren will inherit.
I remain profoundly optimistic about our nation’s future. America is still the freest and most prosperous nation in the history of the world. Yet I am deeply concerned by one troubling development: ideas that history once discredited are finding new life among young Americans and an increasingly influential place within today’s Democratic Party.
I was born in 1959, two years after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit and the Cold War entered one of its most dangerous chapters. My generation grew up practicing duck-and-cover drills in case of nuclear attack while half of Europe lived behind the Iron Curtain. We understood that freedom was neither inevitable nor free.
I watched America meet the Soviet threat with courage and confidence. From President John F. Kennedy’s declaration that we would “<a href="https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/inaugural-address-19610120">pay any price</a>” for liberty to President Ronald Reagan’s <a href="https://civicsforlife.org/ronald-reagan-berlin-wall-speech/?civicsforlife.org/community&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_campaign=CFL+App+2026&amp;utm_source=adwords&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=2833943392&amp;hsa_cam=23485849150&amp;hsa_grp=&amp;hsa_ad=&amp;hsa_src=x&amp;hsa_tgt=&amp;hsa_kw=&amp;hsa_mt=&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23481209192&amp;gbraid=0AAAAACWbQCiWlYU7J2wI0OGnAg5IWxAla&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwguLSBhDLARIsAH-yPrF-SchgJYu1G7KOXM_T9Q1mkmTWinVUTcTOnarEk2gOqXzV71FAsIwaAp4zEALw_wcB">command</a> that Mikhail Gorbachev “tear down this wall,” presidents of both parties understood the moral stakes of confronting communism.
Communism ultimately collapsed because it denied the most essential of truths: our rights come not from government, but from God. When government claims ultimate authority over the individual, freedom inevitably gives way to coercion.
Communism’s record of death and destruction is carved into human history.
Josef Stalin’s forced collectivization starved millions, while millions more met death in the Soviet gulags. Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward produced the deadliest famine in recorded history, killing some 50 million people.
Castro imprisoned dissidents while generations of Cubans fled in search of freedom.
Hugo Chávez transformed one of Latin America’s wealthiest countries into an unmitigated economic and humanitarian disaster. Today, Nicaragua’s Marxist dictator Daniel Ortega openly declares there will be “no more elections.”
This is the inevitable outcome of socialism. Yet, despite the clear lessons of history, socialism is finding an audience among the American Left.
Far-Left candidates are gaining ground, winning elections, and shaping the direction of the Democratic Party. Politicians who once would have been dismissed as ideological outliers are increasingly treated as the party’s rising stars. In New York City, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) standard-bearer and Mayor Zohran Mamdani has publicly endorsed “<a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/look-mamdanis-economic-ideas">seizing the means of production</a>.” In Michigan, Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed — backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — has the Democratic establishment on the ropes. Across the country, progressive candidates are aggressively challenging longtime Democratic incumbents, while many of the party’s traditional moderates have retreated, accommodated, or simply lost influence.
The success of these candidates has come from selling government as the cure for every hardship to a generation that never learned the truth about communism and socialism.
DSA’s <a href="https://program.dsausa.org/">national program</a>, which declares capitalism a failure and states that “complete victory will require building a new society from the ground up,” promises a utopian socialist future without bills for “food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation.”
Of course, they conveniently omit that bills do not disappear. Government can pay them only by seizing the payment from someone else.
As government acquires the power to provide everything, it acquires the power to decide everything.
Conservatism begins with a different understanding. We believe every man, woman, and child is endowed by our Creator with rights that no government gave and no government may rightfully take away. Government exists to protect those rights, and to preserve the conditions for families, churches, communities, and free citizens to flourish.
That conviction has produced results no central planner could match. Free enterprise has lifted billions from poverty, unleashed innovation that has improved countless lives, and made America a beacon of hope for generations.
There is a bitter irony in socialism’s renewed appeal. America has been so successful that many young people can scarcely imagine the misery that would result from its absence. They never waited in a bread line, feared a knock on their door in the middle of the night, or wondered whether speaking their minds might cost them their freedom. They inherited liberty without having witnessed the price that previous generations paid to preserve it.
When I think about my newest grandchild, I pray she inherits an America where faith remains free, where honest work is rewarded, and where government remembers that it serves the American people — not the other way around.
My generation watched communism lose its claim on the world because free people stood firm against it. This generation must now show the same confidence in the enduring truths that made America exceptional.
If we do, our grandchildren will inherit not merely a more prosperous nation, but a freer one.
That is the inheritance they deserve. And it is our responsibility to preserve it.
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Mike Pence served as the 48th Vice President of the United States. He is founder of Advancing American Freedom and author of “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience.”

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Many people have begun to worry about the state of American politics. They feel President Trump’s approval ratings have now dropped to 37% of the number of people in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, while the Democrat Party is being taken over by communists so that the country is careening helplessly into a fatal catastrophe that will leave us eating our pets for breakfast before we wage a Civil War that reduces the continent to a pool of blood and ashes. And, of course, all that’s true. But it’s no reason to panic. Well, it’s kind of a reason to panic. But if you just take a breath and then zoom in for a really close look at the situation, I think you’ll see a reason to panic really close, which hopefully will make it look like something else.
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On the Republican side, the problem is the unpopular war in Iran. President Trump says he is holding off on hurling deadly missiles at Iran because he has managed to negotiate a peace deal with Iran’s supreme leader even though the leader is a Jew-hating Islamist whose slogan is &#8220;Death to America.&#8221; Iran’s supreme leader, however, says he hasn’t been negotiating with anyone, and the confused Trump is actually negotiating with a Democrat candidate for Congress, who is also a Jew-hating Islamist whose slogan is &#8220;Death to America,&#8221; so the mistake is understandable. Overall, the Iranians have sworn to continue to resist Trump’s attacks until the arrival of the apocalyptic Twelfth Imam, who is also a Democrat candidate for Congress. This means that Trump will have to continue hurling deadly missiles, except that we’re running out of deadly missiles so he may have to hurl something else deadly like Kamala Harris’s memoir or lettuce.
But while our munitions are running low, our military is trying to reform. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was administering testosterone tests to the warriors until one of them lost his temper, beat the tester senseless, opened fire on his fellow soldiers with a machine gun, then sexually assaulted a female lieutenant while singing &#8220;God Bless the USA&#8221; at the top of his lungs, which fortunately, turned out to be the correct answer on the testosterone test.
With Trump distracted by the war, he hasn’t had a lot of free time in which to pressure Senate Majority Leader John Thune to, like, make a law or something, so Thune has been forced to find other ways to pass the time. To entertain himself, Thune has invented a new version of Charades in which the answer is always “A potted plant.” The way the game is played, Senate Majority Leader John Thune just stands there like a potted plant, and the other senators keep guessing that he’s Senate Majority Leader John Thune, until Thune reveals that, no, he’s actually a potted plant, whereupon everyone has a good laugh and goes on summer break.
With the Republicans in disarray, the Democrats have felt free to nominate congressional candidates who believe in socialism. The candidates are careful to explain that socialism is not the same as communism because in communism, millions of people starve to death while a leader with a bushy mustache shoots all his colleagues in the back of the head, whereas in socialism, there’s generally no bushy mustache.
The new Democrat candidates say their real platform is economic equality and hating Jews, and they’re all out of economic equality.
The new Democrats have found some common cause with former Right-wing figures like Tucker Carlson. Carlson has been subtly supporting the communists by interviewing such popular pro-communist celebrities as Satan. Tucker says that many Americans don’t realize that Satan actually loves Christians, especially with a little mustard and a smattering of relish, and he says Satan should not be silenced just because certain Zionist influencers are calling him Prince of Darkness, or because Prince of Darkness happens to be his official title. Tucker then let out that creepy high-pitched laugh of his, burst into flames and fell through the floor in a cloud of sulfurous smoke, increasing his audience by several million.
So I think it&#8217;s clear we can all avoid panicking about the state of American politics, if we just zoom in too close to see it properly, and then take heroin.

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The Trump administration has significantly expanded its intelligence presence in Cuba in recent months, according to people familiar with the plans, as Washington intensifies pressure on Havana&#8217;s communist regime and prepares for a wider range of potential operations.  
Two people familiar with the administration’s efforts told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/04/us-sends-more-intel-assets-to-cuba-01023267">Politico</a> that the United States has increased intelligence assets on the island. One described the move as a significant expansion of the CIA’s presence, while another said the intelligence buildup could serve as a critical step for future operations against the Cuban government.
The sources cautioned that military action remains far from certain. Expanded intelligence collection can support a wide range of operations, including diplomatic pressure, counterintelligence, recruiting sources inside foreign governments, and preparation for possible military contingencies.
The increased intelligence activity comes as the administration has made Cuba a central target of its broader effort to confront hostile governments in the Western Hemisphere, arguing that the communist regime poses a national security threat just 90 miles from American shores.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose family fled Cuba after Fidel Castro’s revolution, has made confronting the Cuban regime one of the defining priorities of his foreign policy agenda. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-reveals-how-cuba-is-trying-to-undermine-america?author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Rubio+Reveals+How+Cuba+Is+Trying+To+Undermine+America">In July</a>, the State Department released a 99-page report accusing Havana of decades of espionage, ideological influence operations, and support for revolutionary movements around the world.
“For more than six decades, the Cuban regime has been the leading sponsor of radical leftism and Third Worldism in the United States,” Rubio wrote following the report’s release.
The report argued that Cuba’s greatest strategic success has not been military power but its ability to export revolutionary ideology, conduct espionage, and cultivate influence networks inside the United States and abroad.
The administration has repeatedly framed Cuba as a growing national security concern because of its relationships with Russia, China, and Iran.
During a House budget hearing in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hegseth-says-cuba-poses-a-national-security-threat-as-tensions-rise?author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Hegseth+Says+Cuba+Poses+A+National+Security+Threat+As+Tensions+Rise">May</a>, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told lawmakers that he considers the Cuban regime a threat to the United States after Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL) questioned him about Havana’s relationships with America&#8217;s foreign adversaries.
“I do,” Hegseth said when asked whether he believes Cuba poses a national security threat. 
One administration official described Cuba as a major priority for Rubio, who believes Washington has run out of patience with a regime that has resisted years of diplomatic engagement and economic pressure.
The Trump administration has already increased pressure on Havana through renewed sanctions and an energy blockade that has contributed to widespread blackouts across the island. 
Officials have also intensified public messaging against the regime. The State Department’s recent report accused Havana of serving as a hub for Russian, Chinese, and Iranian intelligence activity while maintaining its own espionage networks against the United States.
Although U.S. intelligence agencies have long operated in Cuba, as they do throughout the world, rebuilding capabilities on the island would provide the United States with greater visibility and leverage in the Cuban government’s military, intelligence services, and relationships with foreign powers.
Whether that pressure results in negotiations, internal political change, or a broader confrontation remains unclear. But the expansion of U.S. intelligence activity suggests Washington is preparing for a wider range of possibilities than traditional diplomacy alone.

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