Nick Tagas

But where's the lie?

Denmark paid 71 million kroner for artillery shells for Ukraine. Shells delivered: 0. The "arms maker"? A registered software firm in Italy, sharing an address with an Audi dealer, advertising with video game and AI images. Estonia had already prepaid the same firm 187M and got nothing. Then sent our 71M anyway. No money has been recovered. We are a laughing stock 🤦‍♂️

30 years ago, John Stossel asked why San Diego schools weren’t using Direct Instruction to address students’ struggles in reading and math. The superintendent’s response? Classrooms should be “more than just worksheets and multiplication facts.” When Stossel pointed out that kids weren’t mastering basic skills, she cited rising graduation rates. His retort: “You’re graduating them, but they can’t read.” Fast forward to today, the reflex remains the same: When students aren't academically proficient, deflect to gameable metrics.

Here is the reason why geometry is used in architecture

The inflatable Diddy might win Halloween.

Lulu is the new Fidel Soros sponsored, communist doctrine, corrupt

How do we know we live under socialism in Europe? Not by what it calls itself. By its symptoms. First: they lie. Socialism can't stand reality. The green transition would make energy cheaper. Censorship is "fighting disinformation." The economy is "resilient" while the factories leave. A system that works with reality doesn't need to lie. A system that contradicts reality has to lie every day, just to keep going. Second: they are taking us to war. Socialism needs war to hide its contradictions. In war, everything socialism wants becomes normal: rationing looks like virtue, central planning like necessity, censorship like security, debt like patriotism, and dissent like treason. An American writer put it a century ago: war is the health of the state. And Orwell saw the deepest use of it. In 1984, the war is never meant to be won – the rulers wage it against their own people, to keep them poor, afraid and obedient. This is not about defense. Poland knows its neighbors, and arms itself for good reason. It is about the use of war: a permanent emergency that excuses every failure at home. The factories closing? The war. The energy bills? The war. The debt? The war. And of course they are not the first socialists to use this strategy…👇🏻 So reverse the logic. A system that told the truth would not need to lie. A system that delivered would not need an emergency. Socialism lies because it can't face reality. It needs war because it can't face its own people. — Socialism in expensive suits and sweatshirts of course:

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The Colts are trading DeForest Buckner to the 49ers for a 2027 fourth-round pick, @TomPelissero

It’s just one of those days…. Disco version.

This is the LA actress Richard Pan hired to pretend to be a senior in a wheelchair attacking me. Her name is Conn Barrett. She is not disabled. She has more than 100 film and TV credits on IMDB. Has there ever been a more desperate candidate?

Peru is about to get the Bukele treatment. This is the new Peruvian president, Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi. The caption on the original video says “We announce the creation of the Unified Command to confront organized crime, an elite special force made up of the National Police and the Armed Forces. We are uniting capabilities, experience, and operational strength to act in a coordinated way against criminal organizations and restore security for all Peruvians.”

As a Korean, I want to explain what’s really happening in our country right now. Our current president, Lee Jae-myung, is a fake president who won through a rigged election with help from the Chinese Communist Party. Our real president, Yoon Suk-yeol — the one who actually loves the Korean people and believes in freedom and democracy — is locked up in a tiny prison cell. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, which has been infiltrated by Chinese spies, and President Lee are pushing policies that are destroying South Korea. This year alone, the stock market has crashed several times, and many young Koreans have taken their own lives. Like most of our cabinet ministers, the Defense Minister is also a Chinese spy. Under this spy-controlled Defense Ministry, South Korean soldiers standing face-to-face with North Korean troops have not been given live ammunition. Koreans only recently found out that our soldiers have been confronting the North Korean military with empty guns for months. Now they’re even talking about taking the guns away completely and making our soldiers stand guard with sticks instead. North Korea has repeatedly crossed the border and spent up to 10 hours a day planting landmines, yet the government — now controlled by the Chinese Communist Party — says nothing and tells us not to provoke North Korea. On top of that, the Korean government allowed visa-free entry for Chinese nationals, and a huge number of Chinese people have flooded into the country. This has caused a sharp rise in human trafficking, kidnapping, and murder. Disappearances linked to organ harvesting have also increased dramatically. They’re even planning to bring in 100 million Chinese people visa-free over the next 10 years — in a country of only 50 million people. In short, Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Party are trying to dismantle the Republic of Korea, pull it away from freedom and democracy, and hand it over to China. That’s also why they’re aggressively pushing multicultural immigration policies. If you don’t want South Korea to fall into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party and radical Islamists, please share our voices. We’ve been trying for years to get the world to see what’s happening, but the global media almost never reports the truth about our country. South Korea is now 99% under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. The last 1% is being held together only by the U.S. troops still stationed here and by ordinary Korean citizens who have been protesting in the streets nonstop, day and night. Yet Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Party are doing everything they can to force the U.S. military out and take back wartime operational control, so they can open the door wide for China and North Korea. Also, since July 7, 2026, a revised version of the Information and Communications Network Act (what Koreans call the “mouth-shutting law”) has been in effect. Under this law, people can actually be sent to prison for criticizing the government or criticizing China. Because of this, many Koreans who tried to speak out on social media or at protests have been investigated and jailed. Freedom of religion has become a luxury in South Korea. Pastors who speak out about what’s happening are being thrown in prison. The government is now saying that if churches get involved in politics, they will be shut down and all their assets will be seized by the state. Is this North Korea? No. This is South Korea in October 2026. Please, share this as widely as you can.

Abdul El-Sayed’s faith and the Middle East have taken center stage in the closing weeks of this middle-of-America campaign, as Republicans have stepped up criticism of his Muslim background, associations and progressive leanings. on.wsj.com/4zRfXwY

Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, in an interview with MS NOW’s Chris Hayes, last night, discussing her husband, and the claims that her husband is actually her brother: Hayes: He was — you were not related to him at all. Omar: Not that I . . . not to my knowledge. Hayes: There’s not some weird kernel of truth through some game of— Omar: Not to my knowledge. Look, I’m sure Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson would say it’s all relative, but if you’re on national television, and you get asked if you are biologically related to your spouse in any way . . . wouldn’t 99.99 percent of people say “no” and not leave any wiggle room?

A 47-foot-wide hole in one California dam’s spillway has reportedly gone unrepaired for more than 30 years. With an El Niño winter approaching, an audit found 57 dams in poor or unsatisfactory condition. Share this anyone who follows California water and flood safety. Story link in first comment. California State Auditor’s Report 2025-603 (released around mid-October 2026) found that, as of May 2026, 57 of the state’s roughly 1,222 jurisdictional dams were in poor or unsatisfactory condition. Of those, 40 carry high or extremely high hazard ratings. The auditor warned that failures of the riskiest ones could collectively endanger as many as 1.5 million people and cause more than $265 billion in economic damage, with many clustered near the Bay Area, San Diego, and Los Angeles areas. Repair costs for dams in less-than-satisfactory condition were estimated at around $28 billion. The report specifically noted one dam with a 47-foot-wide hole in its spillway that has gone unrepaired for more than 30 years. The audit said this could cause flooding affecting nearly 300 people and more than $88 million in damage. The dam is not named, with state water officials citing security concerns (though condition and hazard ratings for individual dams are published in annual reports). Context includes the approaching El Niño winter and potential for heavy rains. The Department of Water Resources has had expanded enforcement authority (reservoir restrictions, liens, fines, etc.) since 2017 legislation after the Oroville spillway near-failure, but the audit found it has never taken punitive enforcement actions despite referring owners of dozens of dams. Staffing, funding, and other constraints were cited. Many issues stem from aging infrastructure built under older standards and owners’ inability to fund repair