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@CynicalPublius You lightly tapped on a peripheral entity and it was full shields up and dog-pile on you. Wow. They are weak and frightened. So dangerous a bit.

America was nearly lost to a cabal of NGOs, think tanks, foundations, specialty media organizations, compromised mainstream media organizations, quasi-governmental organizations and all other manner of other well-funded (often with taxpayer dollars) players dedicated to preserving extra-governmental controls over the average American, all outside the scope of what Americans vote for. The men and women behind these organizations claim to want to benevolently advance public policy, when in reality their singular purpose is to maintain and grow the nefarious personal power they have achieved. Above all else they must defend their fiefdoms, the good of the nation be damned. When reformers try to undo any part of this cabal, those reformers are inevitably smeared, libeled, slandered and threatened. The goal is to prevent them from engaging in that necessary reform by intimidating them into silence. Food for thought.

@MCCCANM @planefag Gonna need a few patch kits me thinks, haha

@planefag That’s a miss!

best angle we've seen yet of the fuzing. spoilers: not good enough lmao

@BecketAdams @hughhewitt Love this genre of Iran war takes. 😂

Forty-eight hours into the 96-hour Battle of Midway, and we'd have people proclaiming a decisive Japanese victory.

Honestly, I hadn't considered how poorly a war would go over with the quick-cut/TikTok generation. Total victory in 30 minutes, or your pizza's free.

@sunshinenroses7 @jayplemons @joshduhamel

Josh Duhamel to actors: Just because you have a platform doesn't mean that you get to preach to everybody. @joshduhamel "Why would you make half of your audience despise you by your political beliefs? I look at it as a business decision. I'm here just to make cool movies, cool TV, cool stuff. I'm the court jester. If I want to preach to you about what I believe politically, I'll go run for office, which I'm not going to do, by the way."

@JulieBorowski Ensign: “Engagement Farming speed, Captain?” Julie:

Trump: "We are done with endless wars." Also Trump: picks Pete Hegseth- a guy who doesn't want war to end. ????

@NitwitMN @walterkirn Me: “dear lord, please never let me get this cynical…”🙄

@walterkirn Or don’t. Turns out voting is the adult equivalent to writing a letter to Santa

I hope voters from now until this fall consider first, before all else, their own real interests & the true conditions of their families & communities. Ignore the "influencers." Ignore the social media & old media colosseum shows. Vote on what's in front of you & inside you.

@RonColeman @CynicalPublius That’s a keeper 😂

@zeroDEIUSA @CynicalPublius When Kurt hits it, he hits it.

Kurt Schlichter’s opinion today proves the Democrat party is lower than whale sh*t in more ways than one and does it with his usual dose of humor! If you want a good synopsis of today’s political theatre presented by the analogy- master look no further. You may feel terrible about being a member of the Republican Party because it’s the stupidest party in American politics until you remember that the Democrat Party exists – and no, the Libertarian Party is not actually a party; it’s the motley crew of pot-addled sophomores holding forth in the dorm suite common area at 2 a.m. of American politics. For all the failures, foibles, and follies of the inept GOP, the current Democrat Party is much, much worse off. I mean, just look at them. They’re treading water in a swamp of narcissistic mediocrity, abandoned by former allies like the working class, controlled by over-credentialed echo-chamber neurotics, and in thrall to a coalition of sexually confused neo-Marxist weirdos, losers, and mutations. You really gotta hand it to them – we couldn’t imagine a party more inept than the Republicans, but the Democrats have managed to prove us wrong. They’re coming off a disastrous last few years where they installed a human eggplant as their party leader, a president whose growing senility was built on a solid foundation of a half-century of being an idiot. This guy wrecked the economy, threw open the borders, and managed to get a bunch of Americans killed by some of the few remaining Third World savages that he hadn’t already invited into our country. Then, after four years of nonstop babbling about “Our Democracy,” the donkey politburo pulled his card following a disastrous debate where the best thing you could say about his performance was that he didn’t soil himself, at least as far as we know. They replaced him with Kamala Harris, a woman of towering unaccomplishment who was so dumb that they wouldn’t even let her talk to the fawning media until they basically had to, at which point she demonstrated why they wouldn’t let her speak to the media in the first place. She blew her most important decision, selecting her running mate, by channeling Harvey Korman and not picking Josh Shapiro. Instead, she invited Tim Walz to prance out onto the national stage, purportedly because he could attract men, proving once again that context is everything. 🧵1/5

@DrunkRepub That’s the ‘tell’ to me that it’s most likely inorganic…

It would be one thing if Republicans were all arguing with each other during a primary or something. But the fact we are doing it while controlling all 3 branches of the federal government is next level self destruction.

@DrunkRepub Performative, societal suicide

And Jacinda moved away 😂

@CyberSamuraiDev @ShivenChabria @grok is the iOS database file “KnowledgeC.db” clearable from the settings area?

You don’t remember how many times you unlocked your phone today. Your phone does. Every lock and unlock is logged with a timestamp, building a pattern of your behavior over time. This lives in a database called KnowledgeC.db No spyware. No hacking. Just your normal device. Now imagine what else it’s keeping track of.

Correction: Second humanoid robot in the White House. Biden auto-pen was first 😉

@CJHandmer Funny, Rob put this out today in WSJ. Paywall free link here

A lot of engagement here seems to underestimate hunger (for wealth, status, competition) as a motivating factor. Staying hungry and sharp is very unintuitive. I think it will help if it is clear that there are thousands of worthy problems to tackle.

What I worry about is a generation of talented experienced engineers being too rich to work.

@CJHandmer I think it takes 5+M after tax to dull the striving/gumption effect… lower than than can even make it stronger. My 2c on experience

@shipwreckedcrew I think of these stories as “outrage chew toys”…

The serial posting of the claim from a Smith SCO memo that "Trump had a business interest related to classified docs he took" only reveals the level of desperation in the press and Democrats to find something -- ANYTHING -- they can use against the Administration. It's comical.

@rachaelmbade There are multiple Iranian parties involved. I’m ignoring “state-run” at this point, as should you.

Iran continues to flip the U.S. the bird when it comes to talks. If we don't have boots on the ground by this weekend I'd be surprised.

@walterkirn Matt dodged a bullet (well nicked)… what a psychopath. Curious where she ends up

Looks like she's removed the job title at Racket News from her X account as of today. That was fast.

@wil_da_beast630 @GPIngersoll I’m going with racists for $200 Wilfred.

Almost impossible to tell, at 1st glance, whether a woke or a racist wrote something.

@BaldingsWorld That’d be a big yep.

Am is hero? Maybe