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@newstart_2024 That’s why I smoke a tobacco pipe a few times a week. It’s probably actually good for me!

“Half my girlfriends had their tits cut off, half my guy friends have tits.” Whitney Cummings dropped that on Bill Maher’s Club Random while talking about soy milk. She drank it for 20 years because everyone said it was healthy. Now she looks around at the hormone chaos in her circle and wonders how they all got sold on it so hard. Bill was right there with her: “Soy? I always avoided it. Something felt fishy.” It spiraled into bigger questions — the food pyramid pushed by big companies, studies that feel shaky when you actually think about them, and how easily we accept “official” advice without asking who benefits. I never touched soy milk and always side-eyed those trends, but I totally get why people trusted it. The messaging was everywhere, backed by “science,” until it wasn’t. Stories like this are a reminder to stay skeptical of health fads sold as gospel. What seems harmless today can quietly reshape lives years later. What’s one mainstream health recommendation you once bought into completely?

@newstart_2024 This 3 minute clip from film director Aaron Russo summarizes it nicely: it was by design. Break up the families, and tax the other half of the population. Utter devastation over time. youtube.com/watch?v=cdtdid…

What if the biggest “win” for families in the last 50 years was actually a trap? Rory Sutherland dropped this on Alex O’Connor’s podcast: The two-income household started as a nice option. Both partners work, more money comes in. Feels great at first. Then reality shifted. Governments got double the tax. Existing homeowners watched their property values soar. House prices rose to match two salaries. Suddenly one income wasn’t enough anymore — even for high-earning singles like consultant surgeons. Families traded ~35 hours of free time per week for only modest gains in lifestyle. What began as freedom quietly became an obligation. And it left single people and parents who want to raise their own kids at a real disadvantage. This one stings because we sold it as pure progress. Personally, it makes me question how many modern “upgrades” we’ve normalized without counting the real cost — especially lost time with family. What’s something you once thought was clear progress that now feels like it came with a heavier price than we admitted?

@ShaziGoalie Given a chance, I’d be gone in a second. Canada is in the midst of a long, managed decline into mediocrity. There is hope of course, but that comes from much closer ties to the USA, (51st state anybody?) not separation from it.

Someone told me today: a medical specialist is leaving the GTA for Cleveland after 6 years. His wife is a U.S. citizen from Cleveland, so they can move back. Two young kids. His family is rooted here in the GTA. Still walking away because they don’t see a future for their kids here.

President Trump read 2 Chronicles 7:11–22 during "America Reads the Bible," joining nearly 500 leaders in a weeklong event honoring America’s 250th anniversary.

Pierre Trudeau, the Club of Rome & the 50-Year Plan to Destroy Canada youtu.be/3CnhyFpPEsg?si… via @YouTube

The SECRET Weapon Trump Has That Keeps BREAKING His Enemies youtu.be/jrMbLExUbVk?si… via @YouTube

@KirkLubimov @ikwilson …and don’t forget pronouns. We have to get pronouns nailed down, then we’ll work on oil exports.

A whole convoy of empty oil tankers on the way to the US to fill up. It could have been Canada but we have land acknowledgments to do and carbon tax instead.

@elonmusk @pizdets17 Yes, come rescue us from the lunatics please!

Canada is cooked

TRUMP'S CIVILIZATIONAL GAMBLE: The Iran Move That Empire and Netanyahu C... youtu.be/DbiN0RCQPIs?si… via @YouTube

@Baloney_and @bl00dr3dr0s3 Agree…cigarettes will kill you. Smoke a pipe instead!

@bl00dr3dr0s3 They all die in their 60s and smell like sh*t their entire lives. If someone is still smoking in 2026 and you work with them, you are working on the same level as a moron. That says more about you

absolutely insane to me that smokers can get smoke breaks but non smokers cant like wtf

@lutherabel1 Looks like a sampler pack from pipesandcigars.com! Fantastic prices when they go on sale.

The year's pipe tobacco. Most goods are improved with a decorative tin.

@yuppieventures Ah…is that a Savinelli Clarke’s favourite?

All Americans recognize that Japanese knives are superior, so of course I use a knife from Tsubaya in Tokyo to cut my plug tobacco for my pipe

@DisrespectedThe Quit cigarettes and start smoking a tobacco pipe. You’ll thank me later.

In Minnesota a pack of cigarettes is nearly double the minimum wage. This is robbery! This is an attack on low and middle income people. This isn't freedom!! Its extortion!

@nickcammarata Start smoking a tobacco pipe…ideas will follow.

people don’t understand the work ethic required to be a professional researcher. a pro basketball player’s job is to make baskets so they shoot 500 shots a day. my job is to have ideas so I take 14 showers

This exchange between Tucker Carlson and Professor Jiang Xueqin on the current state of Canada is worth watching. TUCKER: You mentioned Canada. Most Americans don't even know the capital of Canada. Canada does not appear on their radar, doesn't figure in their thoughts. But you described it as probably, quote, probably the richest country in the world. I think that's objectively true. And yet Canada is not a rich country. In fact, it's getting poorer. Its life expectancy is declining. Its GDP is declining, and that's on purpose. The nation of Canada has been suppressed on purpose. Its population is being killed off by the state through its assisted suicide program and its population is changing through mass immigration against the will of the population. So that country is being held down on purpose. And my question is, by whom and why? JIANG: Sure. That's a great question. And it's something that I struggle with all the time because I am a Canadian citizen. I went to school there. So my answer is that Canada was never really a nation-state. It's more of a glorified resource colony for the British, the city of London and the reality is now that the British are under a lot of strain, the state of London is under a lot of financial pressure. It sees places like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. And what do you do if you have financial issues? You do corporate restructuring, right? You change the middle management. right and historically you know the British got along very well with the Indian elite right they went into India and stole tons of dollars from uh the indians and the Indian elite were perfectly happy to help them so why not use the same model for Australia and for Canada So there are millions of Indians who immigrated to Canada in the past five years and it's put a lot of strain on the Canadian economy because housing prices have exploded and so ordinary Canadians can no longer afford to buy a house. And it's put tremendous pressure on the Canadian welfare system, on the Canadian economy. And you would think that the proper strategy would have a moratorium where they're like, you know what, we've had too many immigrants and we need to close the borders and absorb these immigrants because we want to ensure that these immigrants have proper housing, they have decent jobs, right? You would think that that'd be the right strategy. And instead, Mark Carney goes to India and says, we want more Indians, and also, we'll give you scholarships to come to Canada to study for free. Meanwhile, there are a lot of Canadians who are homeless, who are unemployed, and who cannot put food on the table. But hey, we want more Indians. So if it's not corporate restructuring, if it's not trying to asset strip Canada, I really don't understand the strategy for this. TUCKER: Well, I mean, it's a kind of genocide against Canadians, people whose ancestors built the country, but you wonder what the purpose is. Because it is happening all over the West, all over the English speaking world in the white countries. And it's not an accident, it's not organic. So it's a big picture that spans from Australia to Ottawa.

Trump Breaks the UK's Middle East Shipping Empire youtu.be/Y_S2yfSfUBY?si… via @YouTube

Trump's Iran Strategy Could Change Everything youtu.be/rbcp2HLP9yI?si… via @YouTube

@1689CigarsCo Savinelli Doblone D’oro would be my choice…in a Savinelli 320KS alligator finish.

If you could only smoke one pipe tobacco or cigar for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Excited to watch @KidRock in the All-American Super Bowl Halftime show! MAHA 🤝 Kid Rock

@NFL @sanbenito There is probably nothing more American than football and the Super Bowl…and you choose to fly foreign flags there? Do you have rocks in your head @NFL ?

Lo único más poderoso que el odio, es el amor. The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love. @sanbenito #AppleMusicHalftime