Chief_Engineer

**Politicians Who Got Rich With No Real Job Outside Politics** How does someone spend decades in public office on a government salary and walk away wealthy? That is the question that should make every American pay attention. Public service was never supposed to be a wealth creation vehicle. Yet we see career politicians with little or no meaningful private sector experience building large fortunes while in office. Here are clear examples where the wealth is not primarily from a pre-existing wealthy spouse: **Maxine Waters** has been in Congress since 1991. She represents one of the poorer districts yet owns valuable property in exclusive Los Angeles neighborhoods. Her family members, including her husband and daughter, have received substantial payments tied to her political operation and related business dealings. Ethics investigations repeatedly examined ties to OneUnited Bank where her husband held stock and the family benefited from her connections and influence. This is influence turned into family income. **Judy Chu** (D-CA) showed one of the largest net worth increases in Congress. She entered office with modest assets and saw explosive growth through strategic investments and family-related holdings during her long tenure. Public disclosures tracked dramatic percentage gains that far outpaced normal market returns. **Grace Napolitano* (D-CA) also recorded extreme net worth growth after entering Congress with very low assets. The pattern of rapid wealth accumulation while holding office with limited private sector background is documented in the filings. **Marc Veasey** (D-TX) and several others in the top Personal Gain Index lists entered with relatively modest backgrounds and saw triple-digit or higher annual net worth increases during their time in office. **Jeff Denham** (R-CA) entered Congress with relatively modest assets and saw his net worth explode with a reported 661% increase during his time in office. Public disclosures tracked massive gains that far outpaced normal market returns while he held no significant outside business background before or during his tenure. **Trey Gowdy** (R-SC) showed a 278% net worth increase while serving in Congress with limited private sector experience prior to office. The pattern of rapid accumulation during public service stands out in the filings. The pattern repeats. They enter with modest means, stay for decades with no significant private business background, and leave with wealth that regular Americans building actual companies rarely match. The tools are familiar: strategic stock trading with policy access, family members on payroll or contracts, speaking fees, book deals, and post-office opportunities. When the people writing the rules, awarding contracts, and regulating industries personally profit at that scale with no real skin in the private economy, it is corruption by structure. Even if every form gets filed. The machine rewards staying in the club. Real accountability would require blind trusts, lifetime bans on trading individual stocks, strict limits on family benefiting from the office, and term limits. The data is in the disclosures. The results are in their bank accounts. The question remains: why do we keep accepting it?

I had someone from India explain to me how stupid Americans are because of how easily we are scammed. I replied- high IQ follows a high trust society. I do not believe he understands. Anyhoo ... You can find the stories on the scams from foreign sources as our media is clamping down on reporting them. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/india…

@KaptainKosmo88 Nope. That's over blown. It's mostly all automated now.

@ChiefEngineerCE I would say not all. We do need agricultural workers. There are some visa people who are in fact high qualified/specialized. So maybe keep some based on value to the economy and the rest can go. Especially the grifting "students."

What would America look like if 55 million Visas were cancelled and all the illegals were deported? Let's deep dive it. If 55 million visas were cancelled overnight and all the illegals were deported, America would change in ways few could imagine. At first it would look chaotic. Hospitals short on nurses. Tech firms unable to staff support teams. Crops left to rot because migrant labor vanished. For a few months, the headlines would scream collapse. But then something else would happen. Wages would climb. Automation would soar. The price of an hour of work would be valuable. Trades and apprenticeships would surge. Competence and ownership would return to our society. Hospitals could bill people instead of government. Colleges that depended on foreign tuition would close, but community colleges would thrive again as Americans re-trained. Housing prices in major cities would fall for the first time in decades. Renters would finally have leverage. Families that were priced out could buy homes again. The GDP might dip at first, but the money would start circulating locally. People who thought they’d never matter in the economy would suddenly be needed again. The country would remember how to build, grow, fix, and teach without importing labor. It wouldn’t be easy, but it would be ours. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024; DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, 2023; Borjas, G. “Labor Market Effects of Immigration,” NBER 2018; U.S. Census Bureau, 2024 ACS; Institute of International Education, 2024 Open Doors Report.)

@LeadingReport Same dude predicted his win ... Right?

Sen. John Cornyn says the SAVE AMERICA Act is not going to pass, and everyone knows it.

@H1BExpose Expensive... To a trillion dollar company built on American innovation.

Apple cut 735 American jobs in 2024 and filled 864 with H-1Bs. You are not unemployable. You are just expensive.

**One Simple Law That Protects American Housing** Ban non-citizens on temporary visas from purchasing residential real estate in the United States. That is it. One rule. Our parents and grandparents worked decades to afford a home and pass it to their children. Now temporary visa workers, often here on 3-year H-1B contracts, get approved for 30-year mortgages and flood markets. This creates artificial demand that drives up prices for everyone else while young Americans get priced out of starter homes. Visa labor did not just take jobs. It distorted the housing market in entire suburbs. Banks treated temporary workers like permanent residents, handing out long-term debt on short-term visas. That mismatch was always going to end badly. One clear law fixing foreign and temporary visa ownership would bring supply and demand back into balance for actual Americans. Reply with why -why not.

@BenjaminDEKR It's sketchy when they don't.

Perhaps he should have become a U.S. citizen? After living here since 2011? Just a thought

@CBSNews Why were people from Iran and Afghanistan in America again? How did that benefit me?

The U.S. deported migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, and other countries to violence-torn Central African Republic. cbsn.ws/43SUeH3

@LayoffAI It actually is in their benefit to deport folks. Specifically cheap labor and foreign labor. They need wages as high as possible after all it is competing with the cost of AI..

LAID OFF BY META. THEN DETAINED BY ICE. Per Wired, an employee cut in the May layoffs was detained by ICE almost immediately. Coworkers flagged it internally. No response. Meta declined to comment. No details on the visa type. So why were they employed in the first place? It's worth adding context on Meta's Pro-ICE stance as Zuck has tried to cozy up to this administration. Meta has spent the past year making itself useful to the immigration crackdown. In late January it started blocking links to the ICE List, a site that names roughly 4,500 federal agents and DHS staff using records mostly scraped from public pages like LinkedIn. Months before that, at the Justice Department's request, it took down ICE Sighting-Chicagoland, an 80,000-member group people used to warn each other when agents were nearby. Meta said the group broke its rules on coordinated harm. The company's hardware is in the field too. ICE and Border Patrol agents have been spotted wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses in at least six states, and were filmed using them on protesters in Evanston, Illinois, recording lights on. DHS has said it wants facial recognition built into glasses like these, though there's no confirmation agents have run live face scans yet. Around the same stretch, ICE ran stops near Meta's own data center construction site in Louisiana and detained workers headed to the job. And when DHS goes looking for the people behind anonymous accounts that track ICE raids, Meta forwards the subpoena and gives the user about ten days to fight it. Will be interesting to learn more on this one.

@HazelAppleyard They were already upset with pork in every other dish.

@BillyBonesMac I would do it for a bag of licorice and a lotto ticket.

@ChiefEngineerCE $1,000 is insufficient. Start at $25,000.

We would like a bill that makes hiring illegals a Federal offense with mandatory jail time, loss of business. Offer a $1000.00 reward for reporting. Charge that award to the employer. Should be easy. Congress-Senate prove you care about American labor. 🇺🇸

@antoine_os The power saving has to be ridiculous and on a mobile device. This could be a complete game changer, especially for a dual display.

white pill for my nerds: 60fps e-ink display a random guy outperformed entire eng teams by developing a pixel by pixel driver for e-ink displays that makes it 60fps. he did that after work for months, launched it yesterday. the future is bright

@realtordotcom Well you have the fact that retirement has leveled off for the next 5 yrs with as many dying as retiring. It's called steady state.

Florida's net gain of just 815 retirees in 2025 signals a growing trend of older residents leaving the state for South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee, driven by soaring insurance costs, extreme heat, and a cost of living that has outpaced expectations. Read: rltor.cm/OnzDeQ

@JohnCornyn It's my sincere opinion that the only people that will miss you in office are Democrats, lobbyists, and John Thune. In that order.

Not gonna happen, and every one (except the naive or misinformed) knows it.

@Shoestring_Lab It's the only way UBI works imo.

@ChiefEngineerCE I'm thinking about the odds that the government moves to seize Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI under national security law. The odds just went up substantially.

AI restrictions from foreigners ... Let's discuss. I do this in my real job... I am considered a subject matter expert. I am not some talking head spouting gibberish here so pay attention. I am not going to get too far into it but I get paid for stuff like this by the government and others. This was sudden and zero F's about offending anyone. Detect the threat Assess the threat Protect the system Treat the system Sustain the system The Anthropic news. We can assume Threat has been detected Assessment is underway Protection means no foreign use of the threat - means it's taking place and they are the initiators. Treat - being determined Sustain - being determined Something already happened. Steps for threats - in this context - of it seems familiar to you business guys it's like DMAIC. Meanwhile, the foreign originating AI advisor was fired a couple days ago. Then the government said hey submit your AI for review at EXACTLY the same time .. Hmm 🧐

@danielc27712614 @loon8123 1919 it happened. That was actually the 5th time on our countries history. It's not going away it's raining up and this is just the start.

@ChiefEngineerCE @loon8123 The only situation where this kind of thing actually happens is WAR. If you think you can arbitrarily cancel legally-obtained visas from millions of legal residents who work, pay taxes and OWN lots of stuff without expropriation and all the fun that entails then you're nuts.

@realtimsharp I live in his district. Was a fan. No longer.

Byron Donalds has been annointed as the next governor of Florida. The people must rise up and say “Hell no”. I say this as someone who used to support him.

@MyUnveiledTruth @RedTX2024 They didn't seize the hotel even though by RICO they could have.

Five Indian nationals ran a horrific human sex trafficking ring in Nebraska. Authorities rescued 27 victims, including 10 children under 12, from cockroach-infested motels and eyebrow salons. The victims endured sex trafficking, exploitation, and squalor. The names of the criminals are: Kentakumar Chaudhari, Rashmi Ajit Samani, Amit Prahladbhai Chaudhari, Amit Babubhai Chaudhari, and Maheshkumar Chaudhari. They’ve been charged with conspiracy to engage in labor & sex trafficking. dhs.gov/news/2025/08/1…

@AlternatNews @rnramage Tomorrow is flag day in the USA. We have ours out. God Bless America.

German tour guide is using a German flag in Germany to guide his group. 5 police officers stop him. The flag is offensive to those who are not identifying with Germany. What the f&ck?

@DavidSacks @banditcal2015 It didn't look like they hesitated, quite the opposite.

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.