The Lowdown – The Underground Bunker

Good news: We have fertilizer. Bad news: It’s skyrocketing in price.

Tony Ortega — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:29:23 +0000

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— amanda moore 🐢 (@noturtlesoup17) May 19, 2026

Brooke Rollins admits the Trump administration has “no plan in place” to create a national strategic fertilizer stockpile pic.twitter.com/MTK8JofgrT
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 19, 2026

Brooke Rollins: “We are seeing significant price increases at a time when our farm economy is struggling” pic.twitter.com/Z8nXkvTC15
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 19, 2026

Every single independent, and Massie voter in the district SHOULD vote for Melissa Strange. Do not sit it out. Do not vote for the epsteinian neocon.
I am completely endorsing Melissa Strange for Congress in KY-04 for 2026. https://t.co/Nxkz5FpnT4
— Libertarians for Massie (@jeffersonation1) May 20, 2026

It is completely insane that we had two teenagers try their best to do a one-for-one replica of one of the deadliest racist mass shootings in history, and somehow it is not the biggest story in the country right now https://t.co/zuDGxs9WMv
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) May 19, 2026

To believe in QAnon is to believe anyone who opposes Trump is in opposition to God. Thankfully for these sinners Outlaw will forgive their Massie support. pic.twitter.com/sf0f2rSal3
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 19, 2026

Uranium One was a fake scandal from 2016. Glad we are doing deep dives on it in 2026. I hope you guys get to the bottom of Benghazi. pic.twitter.com/gj2gHGCm7O
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 19, 2026

Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

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Posted by Tony Ortega on May 20, 2026 at 08:00

Q patriots just grateful Trump feeds them lurid AI slop every day

Tony Ortega — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:48:32 +0000

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Graduates Greet Trump Motorcade With Middle Fingers on Way to Golf Club
Another back-to-back golf weekend as Americans strugglehttps://t.co/yuPRb6GgxA https://t.co/yuPRb6GgxA
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 18, 2026

Putin is heading to China, where Russia and China are expected to sign around 40 agreements and unveil a declaration on a “multipolar world.”
Trump came home with no deals.
The contrast is humiliating. pic.twitter.com/2tziumJQtZ
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 18, 2026

Reporter: Given the weaponization announcement today—
Pirro whispers to colleague: What weaponization?
Reporter: Do you think taxpayer money going to people who rioted in the city—
Pirro: I don’t know anything about this. pic.twitter.com/gOt20ZuttS
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 18, 2026

Trump released a last minute video against Thomas Massie.
He really wants to defeat the guy who forced him to begin releasing the Epstein files. pic.twitter.com/Fooo9UcKPU
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 18, 2026

FACT CHECK: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) relied on false and misleading claims to justify his decision to release election denier Tina Peters from prison.
(1) Polis repeatedly said the charges and case have "nothing to do" with the 2020 election. That's highly misleading. He's…
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) May 18, 2026

Obviously this is insane, but there's a long-running conspiracy theory that President Eisenhower met with alien representatives in 1954 to sign a non-agression pact and technology exchange called the Greada Treaty. I doubt this brainrot slop is a reference to that. pic.twitter.com/9Syvtbm8q9
— Mike (not a) Rothschild (@rothschildmd) May 17, 2026

Amazing… https://t.co/HVpKgjNZZK
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 19, 2026

Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

Posted by Tony Ortega on May 19, 2026 at 08:00

On a Sunday when Q patriots were ‘rededicating’ the US, Trump imagines nuking from orbit

Tony Ortega — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:45:01 +0000

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Nuking the Earth from orbit… Truly bizarre stuff. pic.twitter.com/NYqbl6vDRw
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 18, 2026

Today, Trump skipped church once again and went to his golf club instead like he normally does https://t.co/BF3kp4qqw6
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 17, 2026

Mike Johnson rebukes history https://t.co/8TVCm3Ye46
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 17, 2026

So Rededicate 250 is just a giant anti-marriage equality rally? https://t.co/yVj45x4iEt
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 17, 2026

The New York Times reports Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) overruled the wishes of his own clemency board in setting Tina Peters free. https://t.co/vB47EJIKtD
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) May 18, 2026

Cates says he's "waited 6 years" for the Big Payoff which means he got into QAnon in 2020 so I guess COVID broke his brain and that's when he went full blown crank. Good luck on this turning out to be anything (It won't). pic.twitter.com/beqdir0QS4
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 17, 2026

Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

Posted by Tony Ortega on May 18, 2026 at 08:00

Trump getting younger and younger, Q patriots declare

Tony Ortega — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:58:12 +0000

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Trump has come out against Lauren Boebert, one of his fiercest defenders.
For some reason, he is really upset at the Republicans who pushed to release the Epstein files. pic.twitter.com/7YGlbwJci3
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 16, 2026

Trump posted bizarre memes claiming his is getting younger, aging in reverse, and has more energy than before pic.twitter.com/z4vayTSarT
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 16, 2026

Think about what’s being unleashed against Thomas Massie simply because he dared to push for the release of the Epstein files.
Tens of millions of dollars in outside spending. Coordinated smear campaigns. Attacks from some of the most powerful figures in government and media.… https://t.co/wXxPR4PPt1
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 17, 2026

Charlie Angus on impact of Canadian boycott of US travel: "Many tourist locations are talking about drops of 50% … There's areas where the losses have been as high as 80%. We're not bragging as Canadians. We're doing something to defend our sovereignty and put the pressure on… pic.twitter.com/BPyqDojyPM
— MeidasClips (@MeidasClips) May 16, 2026

If you or anybody you know has any idea about the whereabouts of this congressman my Signal is in my bio. https://t.co/FuQvJfWjbR
— Andrew Kaczynski (@KFILE) May 16, 2026

He can't list anything Trump's actually doing. It's a bunch of vague nonsense and a celebration that he won the election. Keep playing J4o in early position James, you're killing it. pic.twitter.com/JJHumHES3C
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 17, 2026

Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

Posted by Tony Ortega on May 17, 2026 at 08:00

Trump done getting worked by Xi, gets back to bombing Iran

Tony Ortega — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:47:09 +0000

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Trump: "President Xi said America is a nation in decline. And I said, 'You're right.'" pic.twitter.com/DM87U3IiNb
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2026

I'm worried that this delay has given the Deep State time to remove Hillary's fingerprints from the uranium. pic.twitter.com/BHIozsR7Vs
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 16, 2026

Tina Peters, the Republican former election clerk imprisoned for crimes related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will receive clemency from Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and soon be released from custody, Polis exclusively told CNN. https://t.co/RiRvhhYqbg
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) May 15, 2026

Tina Peters is guilty as sin and a disgrace to Colorado.
She tried to undermine Colorado’s free and fair election system. When she was caught red-handed, she was prosecuted by a Republican district attorney and rightfully convicted by a jury of her peers.
Reducing her… https://t.co/EUhu1LT6Pw
— Senator John Hickenlooper (@SenatorHick) May 15, 2026

Tina Peters sided with Donald Trump’s Big Lie over our democracy.
Reducing her sentence is an insult to Coloradans and a reward to a wannabe king.https://t.co/q0vtNigyjT pic.twitter.com/O9XDScAkiW
— Rep. Jason Crow (@RepJasonCrow) May 15, 2026

The promise of the digital world was that things would last. But that’s been proven to be a big lie. Entire archives are deleted in the blink of an eye each day. https://t.co/3tCF8Cs8RS
— Zito (@_Zeets) May 16, 2026

Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

Posted by Tony Ortega on May 16, 2026 at 08:00

Xi runs rings around Trump in Beijing

Tony Ortega — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:41:54 +0000

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It’s like the reverse of the Trump cabinet meetings https://t.co/0EvAZrO9sF
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 14, 2026

Trump supports selling off farmland to China https://t.co/VDnQRvfsoA
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 15, 2026

For @NYMag I wrote about the future of conservatism – much less supportive of Israel and wars like Iran – and why Ben Shapiro's media empire is collapsing https://t.co/Zy436amxxY
— Ross Barkan (@RossBarkan) May 14, 2026

Did Trump go to China to check on the Trump Mobile phones he sold that never arrived?
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 14, 2026

Gas is nearing $5 pic.twitter.com/b8KAoOuAMn
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 14, 2026

"The deal is already in place" is one of QAnon's favorite things to say about big meetings Trump has with foreign leaders. Whenever Trump would get within 500 miles of Putin there would be screaming about how a peace deal was "already done" and the announcement would come soon. pic.twitter.com/ptZg3R5H3p
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 15, 2026

Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

Posted by Tony Ortega on May 15, 2026 at 08:00

Trump snubbed by Xi at his arrival in China

Tony Ortega — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:46:09 +0000

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They have to deny he said it even though he did https://t.co/eIQNDRyLFM
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 13, 2026

Ben Meiselas breaks down how the Trump regime is torching America's alliances in real time.
Repeated violations of Austrian airspace. Covert CIA operations in Mexico—conducted without their knowledge.
Former allies are responding with force. pic.twitter.com/OaKhT4qgA1
— MeidasClips (@MeidasClips) May 13, 2026

Donald Trump just landed in Beijing and struggled to get down the stairs of Air Force One.
No Xi. No foreign minister. Just bells, whistles, and low-ranking officials.
China is sending Donald Trump a message. pic.twitter.com/Ram3jrcV1A
— MeidasClips (@MeidasClips) May 13, 2026

White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka says "left-wing violence" is "in ascendance" and that it's "often transgender, anti-Christian, anti-Western civilizational violence." pic.twitter.com/Iv6uFrgrsS
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) May 14, 2026

In 2017 Q said the Deep State had been shattered and we could turn on the TV in a few days to see Hillary and Obama being perp walked. In 2026 the Deep State is still managing to protect Chucky the Typewriter from being outed as the guy who clipped JFK. pic.twitter.com/mEtBrm3zmj
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 13, 2026

The Civil War began in 1861. Clearly it was all about getting the Illuminati’s ducks in a row so they could establish The Fed in 1913. pic.twitter.com/UdmFrKn98Z
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 13, 2026

Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

Posted by Tony Ortega on May 14, 2026 at 08:00

Trump doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation, he’s got a ballroom to build

Tony Ortega — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:42:04 +0000

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Trump: “I don't think about Americans’ financial situation” https://t.co/Zvm2Zc67ec
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 12, 2026

Republicans already being pressed on Trump’s comments:
PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying that he doesn’t think about the financial situation of the American people?
Senator Lummis: Did he say that? I don’t have a comment because I think he actually does care. pic.twitter.com/BzptOHbOc9
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 12, 2026

PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying he doesn’t care about the financial situation of the American people?
Senator Raphael Warnock: Well, that’s apparent based on his policies. pic.twitter.com/6zcjYwP7AA
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 12, 2026

Trump Shared Anti-Black Video From Account That Posted “I Love Hitler”
The account also shared antisemitic conspiracy theories, white nationalist rhetoric, and extremist content across multiple postshttps://t.co/yjioGGF1a7 https://t.co/yjioGGF1a7
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 12, 2026

His people https://t.co/VhWkC0mYrl
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) May 13, 2026

Trump calls disenfranchising Black voters “a wonderful process” https://t.co/keZ91Rky92
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 12, 2026

Trump attacks reporter asking about his ballroom https://t.co/jy0k66Klbt
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 12, 2026

"I think Trump is actually going to conquer Canada, Venezuela, and Greenland." Yeah buddy the Nigerian Prince is about to shower you with wealth, just get him another 5K. pic.twitter.com/UwaqhioZjG
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 13, 2026

Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

Posted by Tony Ortega on May 13, 2026 at 08:00

Q patriots love how their man powers through Oval Office pressers

Tony Ortega — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:44:16 +0000

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Physics https://t.co/vTKTWEQg6Y
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 12, 2026

25th amendment https://t.co/xgufGmkkBD
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 12, 2026

So lucky pic.twitter.com/U5OfE7ENxE
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 11, 2026

So reassuring https://t.co/JDEZqSXXxv
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 11, 2026

More demand for oil exports means higher prices for Americans https://t.co/n7RGLdrHrW
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 11, 2026

In between naps at today's press conference in the Oval Office, Donald Trump called losing the Strait of Hormuz “genius.”
Ben breaks down the full scope of Trump’s disastrous presser. Play this clip: pic.twitter.com/HLhej6yowP
— MeidasClips (@MeidasClips) May 11, 2026

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” https://t.co/GszTfhW5T0
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 11, 2026

Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

Posted by Tony Ortega on May 12, 2026 at 08:00

Q patriots can’t believe how spry their man is at 79

Tony Ortega — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:41:08 +0000

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Voters: Can you do something about these gas prices?
Trump: pic.twitter.com/hbXVWaVJdc
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 10, 2026

Trump lashes out at Fox News, accusing the network of undermining MAGA and the Republican Party — and claiming that MAGA Republicans “hate Fox.” He blames Fox for making it hard for Republicans to win elections. pic.twitter.com/6e41ny3Nry
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 10, 2026

QAnon opposes blood for oil. They approve of blood for the fever dream that Iran has uranium with Hillary's fingerprints on it. pic.twitter.com/dDXGZBnQf2
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 10, 2026

There is no hantavirus vaccine and due to it being unlikely it’ll become an actual health crisis odds are there will not be a hantavirus vaccine anytime soon but QAnon never lets reality get in the way of the narrative. pic.twitter.com/sPCXrzOlKD
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 10, 2026

Living in an alternate reality where all that matter is seeing your sacred number popping up in the headlines. pic.twitter.com/8RUewN4Ov0
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 10, 2026

13K likes for "The God Emperor is healthy and spry! He is fully capable of serving out an illegal third term should he seek it!" pic.twitter.com/3T1y1ZRbh5
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) May 10, 2026

Looking for some background on the QAnon movement? We recommend Travis View’s excellent article at New York magazine as a place to start.

Posted by Tony Ortega on May 11, 2026 at 08:00