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George Smith

@BrandBrooder

Visionary entrepreneur on a mission to make the world shine brighter. Grab my recipe book at the link below to unlock mixology magic & elevate your evenings! 🥃

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George Smith
George Smith@BrandBrooder·
🍹 Welcome to L.I.B.A.T.E., Cocktail Crusaders! 🍹 Hello and cheers to YOU, our newest members of the League of Inspiring Bartenders And Tasting Enthusiasts (L.I.B.A.T.E.)! Whether you're a bartender with flair, a mixologist with a vision, or a craft cocktail connoisseur with a thirst for the extraordinary, you’ve found your tribe! What’s Awaits You Here: • Mix & Mingle: Connect with a global community of cocktail creators and lovers • Sip & Learn: Dive into exclusive tips, tricks, and tastings from the pros • Shake & Share: Show off your signature drinks and hear the stories behind others’ creations • Celebrate: Join us for events, discussions, and pure cocktail joy! Our Vision: To be the heartbeat of craft cocktail culture, where every member inspires and is inspired, turning every glass into a masterpiece of flavor and friendship. Get Started: 🔹 Introduce yourself in the comments – What’s your favorite cocktail? 🔹 Stay tuned for info about upcoming events. 🔹 Share your first post – We can’t wait to see your style! Here's to mixing epic moments together, one sip at a time! 🥂 #WelcomeToLIBATE #CraftCocktailCommunity #CocktailConversations
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George Smith
George Smith@BrandBrooder·
@elonmusk @EndWokeness @cb_doge I have a niece infected by this evil virus. Forced upon her when she was an impressionable 12 years old -by the "educators" we are supposed to entrust with our children! It hasn't been easy but we're doing our best to cope and remain hopeful that she will someday be cured.
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DogeDesigner@cb_doge·
"I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus." — Elon Musk
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@MargoinWNC What happened? Looks like the original post has been deleted? 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Margo@MargoinWNC·
Might want to go read before you put shit like this up. Everything I said is true. The summary judgement with +300 pages of EVIDENCE is out on eCourt. It was filed in November. That's SIX MONTHS AGO. NO RESPONSE. If you have a case, let's go to the jury. They won't. Guess why? I'll skip to the end-she admitted in her deposition she did steal her employer's credit card and use it without authorization. She admitted she sent text messages before filing that said, "I don't want any money, I just to shut her up". She admitted she was a felon, according to the law in Florida. I'll accept your apology when you're done reading. And GFY.
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Dogan Ural@doganuraldesign·
Would you want to see your past interactions with someone on 𝕏?
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George Smith@BrandBrooder·
Thoughts?
LHGrey™️@grey4626

A Reckoning with the Highest Court I have just published what may be the most unflinching autopsy yet performed on the single most corrosive appointment to the United States Supreme Court in the modern era. In the essay below, titled “Ketanji Brown Jackson: The Worst Supreme Court Appointment in American History,” I trace, with forensic precision and without apology, the ideological fever dream that installed Justice Jackson not through constitutional merit but through the explicit racial-and-gender quota of a desperate administration. From her formative years steeped in grievance ideology, through her systematic leniency toward child predators on the district bench, to her dissents that openly subordinate the Fourteenth Amendment’s promise of colorblind equality to the therapeutic imperatives of equity and identity, the piece lays bare a jurisprudence that is not merely mistaken but pathological: a mind that dissolves law into sociology, history into perpetual victimhood, and justice into reparative redistribution. This is no partisan polemic. It is a philosophical and constitutional indictment rooted in the original public meaning of the text, the common-law tradition of Blackstone and the Founders, and the hard-won lessons of Reconstruction. Even Justice Amy Coney Barrett, paragon of intellectual charity, has found Jackson’s approach untenable, the collegial veneer cracking under the weight of an equity-driven vision that treats Article III as an obstacle rather than a limit. The stakes could not be higher. When a sitting Justice reframes the Constitution as an instrument of racial atonement rather than a charter of limited government and individual right, the American experiment itself is placed in mortal peril. The full essay is long, detailed, and unsparing...precisely as the subject demands. It draws on Jackson’s own words, her record, her dissents, and the historical record she so selectively ignores. I wrote it in the spirit of lethal clarity: not to inflame, but to illuminate the rot at the heart of progressive jurisprudence and to arm every reader with the intellectual ammunition required to defend the Republic against its quiet undoing. And because ideas this consequential must not be gated behind any paywall, the entire piece is free for all readers...subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Read it. Share it. Debate it. The survival of constitutional fidelity may well depend on how many Americans still possess the courage to look this pathology squarely in the eye and name it for what it is. The essay begins below. The truth, delivered without anesthesia, is rarely gentle. open.substack.com/pub/lhgrey78/p…

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This has been a major issue for well over a decade! I worked at IBM for almost 20 years and was directly affected by this. Coerced into "mentoring" people I knew would replace Americans simply because they would accept lower wages. I recall vividly stepping off the elevator on a floor of the IBM office in Charlotte (not all too long before I left the company) and literally thought I was in the wrong place because the place was packed wall-to-wall with people from India.
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Steven Edginton@StevenEdginton·
For months I’ve been speaking to American tech workers forced to train their H-1B replacements, or told their jobs were being moved to India. I’ve now heard from whistleblowers from Google and FedEx describing the same pattern. Two-thirds of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign born. There are now more Indian-born workers in Silicon Valley (23%) than California-born (18%). More than 70% of H1-B visas go to Indians.
GB News@GBNEWS

“I was told to train my Indian replacement.” “My whole team’s jobs were sent to India.” “Google outsourced my work to the Philippines.” @StevenEdginton speaks to American tech workers replaced by foreign labour due to the H1-B visa, and offshoring jobs to India.

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George Smith@BrandBrooder·
🚨 Just got back from the most epic 17.6-mile adventure of my life and I’m still buzzing! Yesterday I stepped WAY outside my comfort zone to pace Missy during the Hellbender 100 from Old Fort Picnic Area (mile 65.8) all the way to Camp Grier (mile 83.4). I had never run anything close to that distance before, but together we crushed it. Not only did we survive the night miles, we actually made up time and rolled into Camp Grier at noon — a full hour ahead of the cutoff. If you’ve ever wondered whether you could do something that scares you… this is your sign. You don’t have to be an elite athlete. You just have to be willing to show up, put one foot in front of the other, and believe you’re capable of more than you think. I’m proof it works. So tell me in the comments: What’s one thing you’ve been wanting to do that’s just outside your comfort zone right now? and let’s cheer each other on. Proud to have been part of Missy’s crew and even prouder of what we can all do when we stretch a little further than we thought possible. 💪❤️ #PacerLife #hellbender100miler #StepOutsideYourComfortZone #YouGotThis #UltraRunning
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George Smith@BrandBrooder·
@60Minutes This is absolutely despicable! Unless and until 60 Minutes posts a formal apology and tells the truth about what happened, I will NEVER watch another episode! #Boycott60Minutes
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60 Minutes@60Minutes·
After natural disasters, white nationalists, militias, and conspiracists often arrive, offering help. But they also want to recruit and improve their image. Watch the full 60 Minutes report: cbsnews.com/news/some-whit…
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@mattvanswol I was just thinking about this man a few days ago and how it had been a while since I've seen an update from you. Hats off to Jake! Keep on shining!
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Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
🚨#BREAKING: Western North Carolina hero, Jake Jarvis confirms he has now worked an absolutely mind-blowing 570 DAYS FOR FREE for victims of Hurricane Helene with his 9-year old daughter, Mya. To this day, Jake has never charged victims a dime for help. ABSOLUTE HERO!!!!!!!
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George Smith@BrandBrooder·
Seems completely rational and reasonable to me.
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol

@RepFine 1) Zero people with dual citizenship should be allowed to run for Congress AND 2) Only natural born Americans should be able to run for Congress. America first means Americans ONLY.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ This should not be controversial.

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George Smith
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@niccruzpatane I already want one and can't wait until the order page is online!
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Nic Cruz Patane@niccruzpatane·
Everyone is going to want a ~$30K Tesla Cybercab when it becomes available, they just don’t know it yet. • Much safer than human driving. • No steering wheel or pedals. • Have the ability to legally sleep as it’s driving you to your destination. • Two-seater design, with tons of legroom • Great for elderly individuals who are no longer able to drive, as well as people with disabilities. • Work as are you being driven, or watch movies/play games. • Send off to run errands (pick up kids, pick up someone at the airport, etc). • The ability to add/subtract from the Tesla Robotaxi fleet to earn passive income. • You could buy a fleet and run your own business. • Send to pick up groceries, or other orders. • Have the ability to send home after getting dropped off your location, eliminating the need for parking. • Send for service autonomously when needed. • Autonomous Home Delivery • Virtually Zero Maintenance • $0.20 or less per mile operating costs • Wireless charging capabilities with well above 90% efficiency. This car will revolutionize the transportation industry and car ownership.
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@wholemars Can anyone help me understand why Mini is 0%? This seems suspect to me because I know people who are loyal Mini owners.
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Whole Mars Catalog@wholemars·
U.S. loyalty rates by make, February 2026 1. Tesla — 61.1% 2. Subaru — 60.5% 3. Toyota — 59.9% 4. Ferrari — 59.7% 5. Honda — 58.2% 6. Ford — 57.8% 7. Lucid — 57.9% 8. Chevrolet — 56.7% 9. Nissan — 55.7% 10. Mercedes-Benz — 54.7% 11. BMW — 52.9% 12. Kia — 52.9% 13. Hyundai — 51.7% 14. Lexus — 50.4% 15. Mazda — 48.3% 16. GMC — 47.8% 17. Porsche — 46.7% 18. Rolls-Royce — 46.2% 19. Lincoln — 45.9% 20. Volvo — 44.5% 21. Acura — 44.2% 22. Land Rover — 43.9% 23. Lamborghini — 43.6% 24. Jeep — 43.5% 25. Volkswagen — 43.2% 26. Cadillac — 41.2% 27. Aston Martin — 40.8% 28. Audi — 38.0% 29. Ram — 38.8% 30. Buick — 36.0% 31. Genesis — 36.1% 32. Mitsubishi — 34.3% 33. Polestar — 34.9% 34. Infiniti — 31.5% 35. Bentley — 30.0% 36. Rivian — 28.6% 37. McLaren — 25.0% 38. INEOS — 24.7% 39. Chrysler — 21.4% 40. Alfa Romeo — 20.2% 41. VinFast — 20.5% 42. Lotus — 16.3% 43. Jaguar — 15.8% 44. Dodge — 15.5% 45. Maserati — 11.7% 46. Fiat — 3.3% 47. Mini — 0.0% 48. Smart — 0.0% 49. Fisker — 0.0%
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LHGrey™️@grey4626·
My beautiful darlings... I’m stepping away from this arena for a few hours today. Not by choice, but because some sadistic technician is about to slide me into a goddamn MRI tube to stare at the wreckage I call a left shoulder. That joint has been dislocated so many fucking times over the years it feels like a war crime committed by gravity itself...cartilage shredded, tendons hanging by threads, bone grinding against bone like it’s got a personal vendetta. It’s fucked beyond recognition, a monument to every brutal takedown, every reckless collision, every time I told pain to go fuck itself and kept swinging. If the scans say what I already know in my marrow, they’ll be carving me open soon enough for the kind of reconstructive surgery that turns warriors into patients. I’m not happy. I’m not “accepting this with grace.” I’m fucking venomous about it. I'll be back later on. 💀🗡️
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FairTax® Official@FairTaxOfficial·
👇pretty much says it ALL!
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George Smith@BrandBrooder·
People comment on my posts claiming the same use of AI nonsense. Like you, I have used em dashes (and ellipses) in my writings long before AI even existed. Knowing AI uses em dashes as a crutch fast too often, I have intentionally tried to adjust my writing style to minimize their use to avoid these silly accusations.
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John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
I’m done pretending. AI is an incredible tool but it is making me spend more time writing posts and articles, not less. Go back through my old posts. I was a heavy user of the em dash. Now I have to edit them out. I do use AI for spelling and grammar. Sometimes I use it to adjust tone. It works, but it too often changes the meaning of what I wrote. The old process was a spell check. It took time, but when you finished, you were done. The new process is to slowly reread everything AI has touched, looking for the places where it quietly rewrote my thinking. That takes longer. I also use AI to fact check, occasionally. The problem is that fact checking sends me down rabbit holes that can eat hours of time. Finally, regardless of what I write, I have to edit it to sound more human. That means I have to keep learning the latest AI tells, like the em dash, in order to scrub them out. @TheStalwart did an exhaustive review of the human-versus-AI detectors for his podcast. He found Pangram the most accurate. The post Mankosmash is calling out scored 100 percent human. Not 99. Not 80. One hundred. And yet Manko called me out anyway, and his comment has hundreds of likes. I do not blame him. The way I write is stream of consciousness. You get your thoughts on the page, then you edit. Stop to think about sentence structure mid-flow and you lose the thread. Bestselling author Anne Lamont calls this writing Bird by Bird. It promotes writing "shitty first drafts," overcoming perfectionism, and getting content out in your voice one paragraph at a time. That is what I did on this post. Problem is when I reread it, I had the same reaction Manko did: this sounds like AI. I thought I could get away with it because AI does not stack negatives the way I do (probably why Pangram gave me 💯). I was wrong. I got called out. I have also spent more time than I want to admit asking myself whether AI has changed how I write. I am not an English savant. I am not a natural writer. I cannot keep all the rules of the language in my head. I have become a competent writer by reading for hours every day. I edit by ear. I read my drafts out loud and listen for what sounds wrong. Which means if everything I read is AI slop, AI slop could start to sound right. I read old books every day to inoculate against that. Still, trends are insidious and AI slop is certainly trendy. Pangram says the post is 100 percent human. The harder question is whether I arrived at that word structure naturally, or whether I picked it up because I am marinating in too much AI-written content from everyone else. I do not know. What I do know is that AI has nearly doubled my workload as a journalist.
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Mankosmash@Mankosmash

@johnkonrad > It wasn’t electric. It wasn’t rhetoric. It was reciprocity. Please stop using AI to write your posts. I stopped reading when I saw this. AI is incredibly stupid & weird in style, and worst of all it is ridiculously verbose & is hugely disrespectful of the readers time.

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Vivek Ramaswamy@VivekGRamaswamy·
The expansion of government at every level after Covid is unconscionable & we’re going to rein it in. It’s the only way.
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George Smith
George Smith@BrandBrooder·
To everyone who feels like giving up right now... I’ve been exactly where @bluewmist is. Most people don’t know this, but back in the mid-80s the house I lived in burned to the ground and it was a total loss. The only thing I saved was my BMX bike I grabbed off the porch at the last second. A couple years later, my wife and I lived out of a pickup truck with our oldest kid for longer than I care to admit. Rock bottom wasn’t a moment; it was a season that felt like it would never end. I could have stayed there. Some days it seemed like it would have been easier. But one day I made a conscious decision: my destiny is mine to shape. That single mindset shift changed everything. I eventually landed a job at IBM, worked my ass off, and invested every extra dollar I could scrape together. Then 2008 hit and I watched over 40% of everything I had saved evaporate overnight. After nearly 20 years at IBM I took what was left and bet it all on starting my own businesses. Some of them have been dissolved. However, despite the staggering losses, I don’t deem them to be failures because I consider them tuition. Every single one has taught me something I needed to learn to improve. Here’s the truth I’ve learned the hard way: You are 100% responsible for your own destiny. It’s not the hand you’re dealt. It’s the decisions you make after the fire, after the crash, after the world kicks you while you’re down. The moment you decide to own that, the game changes. So my one piece of advice to you... Never, ever give up! The second you do, you hand the win to every voice that said you couldn’t, wouldn’t, or shouldn’t. You hand the win to the circumstances trying to bury you. Keep going... even if it’s just one small decision today. Focus on what’s in your control. Stay positive when everything screams “quit.” The comeback may not be pretty, but it is yours. You’ve already survived 100% of your worst days so far. This is proof you’ve got what it takes. Keep fighting. The better person on the other side of this is waiting for you. You got this!
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blue@bluewmist·
To all men who survived rock bottom, what’s one piece of advice would you give a man who feels like giving up right now
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George Smith@BrandBrooder·
@EricLDaugh Respectfully, this is not the best answer. The best answer is to simply eliminate any and all positions that are not absolutely essential. To achieve a balanced budget, we need fewer civil servants -not more!
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 JUST IN: Trump NASA Chief Jared Isaacman just DOGE’d the agency by eliminating $1 BILLION per year in WASTE and abuse GREAT! 👏🏻 We’ve been paying “staffing agencies” for workers, but Isaacman is CONVERTING full-time “contractors” to civil servants This saves over $1B in taxpayer funds, which can go toward future SPACE missions instead! Keep crushing it, @NASAAdmin 🔥
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@SloanRachmuth This action from Mr. Berger comes too late for several people in our rural community in Wilkes County. I hope someone can find a way to remedy quickly before the number of people who lose their homes due to recent property tax increase skyrockets.
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