Steven Beem

Peter Thiel just compressed forty years of American decline into one sentence. Thiel: “Silicon Valley deals in the world of bits; most of the economy is the world of atoms.” For four decades, the most talented engineers alive funneled into a single corridor. Computers. Software. Mobile. Internet. Not because the physical world ran out of problems. Because solving them became illegal. Thiel: “It was a bad idea to become an aerospace engineer. These were all industries that were sort of in structural decline because they were getting outlawed, they were getting regulated to death.” Nuclear. Chemical. Mechanical. Aerospace. Field after field, regulated into silence before a generation of builders ever arrived. Thiel: “Computer science was the only sort of scientific, technical field that actually had a future in the 1980s.” So the builders went where building was still allowed. The physical world paid in decades. Founders Fund: “We wanted flying cars. Instead we got 140 characters.” That is not satire. That is the ledger. Now AI is forcing the reckoning no one scheduled. The intelligence being built inside data centers does not stay inside data centers. It moves into manufacturing. Into energy. Into aerospace. Into every domain that was locked and left to decay. That gap is closing. Faster than most institutions can process. America fills it. Or cedes it.

@HagmanDr @FurkanGozukara LOL! Career dipshit you mean?

@FurkanGozukara This is what happens when the US is not represented by career diplomats, but only by realty billionaires.

BOMBSHELL: Jake Sullivan reveals that just days before the US started bombing Iran, Tehran put a massive peace proposal on the table in Geneva. The US negotiators "simply didn't understand what they were being offered" and bombed them anyway!

@LangmanVince 😂 He needs to hook up with this dance team! 💃

@HansMahncke Would have frustrated Beria, “Show me the man and I'll show you the crime"

The subpoena released this morning by Chuck Grassley in connection with the fraudulent Arctic Frost investigation is absolutely staggering. It didn’t just ask for Kash Patel’s phone records, it asked for everything he did from 2020 to 2023. Just to name a few, they requested all usernames and screen names, every address and email, complete billing and payment details including credit card and bank account numbers, every device ID, and a full log of every call, text, and voicemail showing who was contacted, when, and for how long. They also obtained all internet session data, including the exact IP addresses. So this wasn’t just about who Kash called. It was basically a complete view of his entire life, mapping his daily routines, travel, relationships, finances, and even tracking the specific hardware he used. In short, they got a full digital shadow of his life. To have come through all of this without so much as a scratch tells you just how clean he is.

@BarackObama Seriously? Wow!

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time. The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more. But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.

@Angry_Staffer LOL!

GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting

Speaking about the deep contradictions in human nature, Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada said: “Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one barely use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about the relatives still in their lives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have a partner often fail to appreciate them. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the full complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one. The key to happiness is gratitude—to truly see and value what we already have, and to understand that somewhere, someone would give everything for what we take for granted.”

𝗩𝗗𝗛: 𝗪𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥-𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝟵𝟬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 Victor Davis Hanson just put the Trump era in its proper historical context — and the scale of what he's describing should stop you cold. The last time America saw a president attempt to fundamentally restructure the nature of government was Franklin Roosevelt from the left during the New Deal in the 1930s. What Trump is doing from the right is that consequential. Not a policy adjustment. Not a pendulum swing. A structural counterrevolution. The border is closed. DEI is being dismantled and Trump is winning the argument publicly. Iran no longer poses a nuclear threat for the foreseeable future. Universities are competing with each other to cut deals with the administration rather than defy it. The institutions that enforced left-wing ideological dominance for decades are retreating on multiple fronts simultaneously. But Hanson's most important insight is the one about power. The left exercises power even when they control nothing — no White House, no Congress, no governorship. They do it through universities, through media, through HR departments, through accreditation bodies, through regulatory agencies, through the permanent bureaucracy. They impose an agenda that the majority of Americans oppose — on immigration, on DEI, on gender ideology, on crime — because they captured the institutions that don't require winning elections. What Trump is doing is attacking those institutions directly. And that's why the reaction is so unhinged. This isn't Democrats upset about losing an election. This is an ideological class watching the infrastructure of their unelected power be dismantled in real time. Hanson's warning is worth heeding: brace yourself. The resistance coming will be frantic and fierce precisely because the stakes are existential for the left's ability to govern from the shadows. They know if this counterrevolution succeeds, they'll have to actually win elections to impose their agenda. And they know they can't.

Finally, a LEGO set I can put together…

I can’t stop laughing.

@Acyn CIA is rightly involved since the Democrats worked with foreign entities to interfere in our Federal elections. Likely the previous administration’s CIA was knee deep in the operation. Dems trying to cover their involvement, their desperations is palpable.

Warner: You were involved in an FBI operation to seize ballots in Georgia. Where is the authority for you to involve yourself in a domestic law enforcement activity? Gabbard: I did not participate in a law enforcement activity. Warner: You were present on the scene. Gabbard: I was there at the request of the president… I was not aware of what was in the warrant or was not. Warner: What was the request of the president? Gabbard: To go and observe Warner: Do you have the answer why the president was knowing about the affidavit before it was even served? Gabbard: I'm not aware that the president knew about an affidavit before it was served. Warner: Then why was he sending you to Fulton county?

@eurofounder LOL!

My cousin Dietrich is one of the best paid engineers in Germany He makes €41,000 a year before tax Last week he got an offer from a big tech company in the US that would net him $350,000 "Are you going to take it?" I asked him "It's a good offer, but I would actually earn less than now" He is right. In Europe, he makes €41,000 and gets: - Free healthcare - Strong privacy protections - Diversity - Pension benefits If you count this in, it's much more than $350,000 European salaries are the highest in the world if you adjust for quality of life

@lamps_apple Don’t tell Dan Carlin

Look at the board. Russia’s economy is being eaten alive from the inside. China just posted the lowest growth target in its modern history and admitted, for the first time ever, that deflation has been devouring their economy for three straight years. Iran’s supreme leader is dead, and their Navy is scattered across the ocean floor. Venezuela’s dictator is sitting in a jail cell in lower Manhattan. Cuba can’t fuel an airplane. And the great CRINK alliance… China, Russia, Iran, North Korea… the coalition that every think tank in Washington warned us was going to end American dominance? It fell apart the first time any of them actually needed help. Every single time. Not once did one of these countries come to the rescue of another. Not once. And where is America? Military deployed across multiple theaters with a speed and precision that stunned the entire world. The economy absorbing global shocks that would flatten any other nation on earth. The dollar still the reserve currency of the planet. NATO still intact. And a president who demonstrated in a matter of hours in Caracas what Russia has failed to accomplish in four years in Ukraine. A matter of hours. The United States of America is operating from a position of strength that would have seemed impossible five years ago. Every major adversary is weaker. Every supposed counter-alliance is fractured. Every bet against America has lost. And there is not a thing… not a single thing… that any country on this earth can do to stop it.

@Rudeduderudy757 @AdamKing10TV Yeah only set the completion% record in his rs freshman year and top five in 20+ yard throws. How do they put up with such incompetence?

@AdamKing10TV Too bad we ain’t nobody to get them the ball

We've seen a lot of great receivers come through Zone 6, but the size of Chris Henry Jr and Jeremiah Smith together is staggering to see in person. No team should be allowed to have those two receivers with that much talent, at the same time:

@recruiterdude @AdamKing10TV @MiamiHurricanes Derp

@AdamKing10TV I think the @MiamiHurricanes were just fine with those two on the field at the same time. #gocanes

@cryptoacc11 @ImtiazMadmood LOL!

@ImtiazMadmood We don’t hate bacon, beer, chess or any of those things listed. Its just not permissable.. you are taking things purposefully out of context. With bad intent

I keep reading that it's "not all Muslims". Here are the Pew Trust figures. 1.4 BILLION Muslims, 86%, believe that the wife must ALWAYS obey her husband. So if he wants sex, he gets it, or he beats her with the approval of the Quran. 1.1 BILLION Muslims want Sharia law with all of its evils and its unending hatred of women. 3/4 BILLION Muslims want the death penalty for adultery (but a husband can have four wives). HALF A BILLION Muslims think that if someone leaves their violent terrorist cult, they should be killed. Well, actually, the Quran says they should either be killed, or crucified, or have a hand and a foot cut off on opposite sides of the body. Seriously. Half a billion Muslims think that's a righteous plan. They hate bacon, beer, women, music, dogs, chess, Jews, infidels, our ideas, our ideals, and our freedoms … and they whine about "Islamophobia". That's not a "phobia". That's a reasonable, sane, historically justified fear of violent, bloodthirsty 7th-Century barbarians. Wake up, folks. Islam is 100% incompatible with the West. It is not a religion. It is a terrorist cult. We likely can't get rid of the Muslims we have foolishly let in … but we damn sure shouldn't let in even one more. They want to establish a worldwide Caliphate, and far too many of them are more than happy to kill us to achieve that. Sadly. - @WEschenbach

@D_ByersArtist @LePapillonBlu2 Love your sense of sarcasm, maybe tone it down a little to really sell it

@LePapillonBlu2 Here's a thought: If we can get rid of Cheetolini, maybe the Dems should install a coalition Presidency made of the 3 former Presidents & Kamala and Hillary. A dream team co-op Presidency to get the country back on it's feet. Imagine those great minds all working together!

Seeing all 3 Former Presidents, VP Harris and Former First Lady Jill Biden, in place to honor Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. gave me a Glimpse of what this country used to stand for. Honor, Respect, Dignity!

@paulwillard81 @Whittaker18Tom You can’t ignore winning that many road games

@Whittaker18Tom They've barely won their last 4 games, including needing OT to beat a bad Ohio team. I agree. Put them in the tourney so we can watch them get bounced in the first round. They'll be lucky to win the MAC Tournament for the automatic bid.

#EXPAND your walk ons flipping off the entire student section put this team in March I have seen enough

How can you not love dogs?

@dccommonsense Dan supporting the party of Tim Walz, Kamala and Gavin Newsome and somehow declaring he holds the intellectual high ground! Really? Hard Core Bullshyte seems more appropriate.

nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -Isaac Asimov And we are paying the price for it now. Hunter Thompson's "The New Dumb" is the current law of the land.

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,