John Galt (clone)

@CapitalMktGuy @johnkonrad @VickieforNYC @bog_beef did you know this?

Fascinating. I did not know that. From Grok: - The claim is true: NYPD’s Intelligence Bureau runs an International Liaison Program that posts detectives and senior intelligence officers in 15-16 cities worldwide, including locations in the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. - These officers embed with local law enforcement to gather real-time counterterrorism intelligence, monitor transnational threats, and share best practices, with the program funded by the nonprofit NYC Police Foundation since 2003. - Launched after 9/11, it gives the NYPD one of the most extensive overseas intelligence capabilities among U.S. municipal police departments, providing independent situational awareness on global events relevant to city security.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. We are in a soft secession under Zohran. He considers New York an independent city-state with its own foreign policy, immigration policy, and economic policy. He does not recognize the authority of the federal government except to the extent he can extract money or political wins from it. The intent is to use the resources and authority of New York City to wage war against the federal government and the rest of the country. The DSA is quite open about it. They're telling us what they plan to do, and Zohran is executing. Colluding with the Iranians was just another means to that end. They will collude with any and all of our enemies, because the stated goal of the DSA is to dismantle the country from within. Again, they say all of this out loud. No inferences necessary here. In this particular case, the meeting with the Iranians was sidelined by the State Department. But the intention is crystal clear, and just because a high-profile meeting was stopped doesn't mean there isn't back channel communication and cooperation happening between the DSA/Mamdani admin and the Iranians. Obviously there is. Meetings like this don't just materialize out of thin air, and ties between the DSA and Iranian-linked fronts like the People's Forum are too many to count. Now what are we actually going to do about this? We're WAY past the point that it can honestly be argued that the DSA isn't an insurgency determined to bring down the country. I really think it requires a military solution now; take this out of the corrupt civil court system and use the military to roll up the DSA and charge them as revolutionary insurgents. Do it while we still can and avoid inevitable future bloodshed.

POTUS is absolutely right. Whoever provides secure and safe passage of commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz should be compensated for this service. Iran has always been the GUARDIAN of the Strait and will remain so FOREVER. 20% is of course too much. We will be fair

@TheEconomist anybody have a copy of the report, to not have to give these losers your personal info?

Which is the most liveable city in the world? Our sister company ranked 173 places on five different categories. But one European capital shined above the rest economist.com/graphic-detail…

@mobbs_mentality @grok who is the shill again? Nepo baby?

For all the morons in my comment section yelling, “but what about Dresden or Hiroshima?” Let me explain. There is a difference between tragedy and criminality. Dresden and Hiroshima were decisions made in pursuit of ending the deadliest war in human history. And every option before them carried immense human cost. By contrast, Putin chose to start an illegal war against a peaceful neighbor. The strikes on Kyiv are part of his campaign to conquer a sovereign nation through terror and coercion. Russia is not trying to stop a genocidal aggressor. Russia IS the aggressor. Bottom line: there is a profound moral difference between using overwhelming force to end a war of aggression and using indiscriminate violence to prosecute one.

@PangurBn10 “top 10 HDI” country is a particularly Redd1t/Derek thing to say

Put your hands if you think Ireland is better today in 2026 than 20 years ago (2006) or 30 years ago (1996)

@BrianMcDonaldIE looks like Communism was more fun

According to this ad, on 1980s Soviet-era Aeroflot you could feast on ham, wild game, caviar and vodka and light up a cigar on board. Nowadays you get herded like cattle and you’d be lucky if your sandwich isn’t stale.

@MothinAli i saw your name in the news regarding @areopagus123 investments your stupidity is amazing

Dr Hussam Abu Safiyah has been held for more than two years in an Israeli torture facility. His life is at serious risk, he's been denied medical treatment and tortured daily. Why is the world silent? This is an innocent man who must be released immediately and the perpetrators held to account. The UK government must take action now.

Wow, this video shows how clear the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is now and it's so amazing even this Trump hater has to admit it. You can see all the way to the bottom and even with some wind, you can get beautiful pictures and video. The water is incredibly blue now too.

@greububble @BrianMcDonaldIE it all began long before her. she was elected in 1979 some left-wing people in England and other parts of the UK hate her because of what she did to them in England

@C74210148 @BrianMcDonaldIE Я не буду с вами спорить. Я не ирландец, в Ирландии не жил, но подозреваю, что в Ирландии найдутся люди, которые с вами не согласятся. Именно из-за того, что Тэтчер не хотела идти на компромисс и отступать от своих принципов, в Ольстере десятки лет лилась кровь.

Ivanov was well known for his advocacy for tiger and leopard preservation. A passion he shared with the actress Pamela Anderson.

@greububble @BrianMcDonaldIE Thatcher did nothing wrong, especially not to Irish people if Ivanov was just the same as Thatcher he must not have been too bad

@BrianMcDonaldIE "О мёртвых или ничего, или только правду". Но для вас издалека его смерть не вызывает эмоции, это понятно. Это как смерть Тэтчер или кого-то, кто виновен в гибели многих ирландцев. Мы бы тоже не радовались.

@Noahpinion will you idiots ever shut up about « AC »? its been over two weeks you should find a new topic to spam about

I am not badgering Europe about AC because I hate Europe, or because I look down on Europe. In fact, I think Europe is great, and I want more Europeans to live instead of dying!!

I am a maintenance technician at the National Park Service. I painted the Reflecting Pool. There are about 4,000 fewer of us than last year. I have not been cut yet, so I do the work the cut people used to do, plus mine. The spec said American Flag Blue. A dark blue, for a pool that sits in full sun all day. I asked why dark. The work order did not have a field for that question. The estimate was $1.8 million. The contract is at $14.7 million now. No bid. The form said "unusual and compelling urgency." The urgency was the 250th anniversary of independence, which has been on the calendar since 1776. The contractor had not held a federal contract before. This was the first. The qualification on file was a private golf club. The margin was 20 percent. The standard is 6 to 12. The Service accepted it in writing and noted the reason as a difficult job and a tight schedule. Both of those are accurate. On May 8 a vehicle crossed the pool. The pool was empty. The crossing was not in the spec. After it there was a gash in the surface, 250 feet long. The supplemental work order following the crossing was $6.2 million. The filtration was removed because a prior administration installed it. The phosphates entered the water under a prior administration. The sun predates this administration as well. We sealed it. We filled it from the Potomac. The Potomac carries phosphates. Phosphates feed algae. The dark paint holds the heat. Heat and phosphate and sun is the recipe for growing algae on purpose. We did not do it on purpose. We followed the spec. The pool turned green in one day. Interior said the green was residual. A normal startup process. I wrote "normal startup process" in the log, because that is what the log says now. On June 18 the Department posted that the water was crystal clear, and compared the dead algae we vacuumed to the remnants of the Iranian Navy at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. The water was green on June 18. I logged the post. I did not add to it. I poured the hydrogen peroxide myself. 12 percent. The label says it burns skin and eyes. Interior says it has no harmful side effects and is safe for marine animals. On Sunday a duckling was found in the pool. There are no marine animals in the pool. It is freshwater. It has ducks. I wrote in the log that the duckling was not a marine animal. That part is accurate. No necropsy has been done on the duckling, or on the two birds found near it. The Department has not released a cause. I do not have the staff to commission one. I filed it under resource allocation. This morning the spec changed. The target color is green. The work order says the pool is achieving its color ahead of schedule. I am no longer removing the algae. I am maintaining it to standard. The standing water developed an ecosystem. An ecosystem of this profile meets the federal definition of a wetland. Wetlands are protected. We now require a permit to drain the pool. The permit office lost 4,000 people last year. I am told the wait is considerable. The review that was required before we painted it was the one we did not do. There is a process for altering a historic landmark. The Service used the streamlined version, the one for work that changes nothing. In the filing it is recorded that we knew it did not qualify, and that the schedule came from White House leadership. The permit to drain it is required. The review to paint it was not completed. Both are in the record. The blue chips are American Flag Blue, so they are flags. There is a code for flags. A flag may not touch the ground. A flag may not touch water. I lift each one out with the net before it sinks. The torn ones go in a box marked for dignified disposal. I run a flag retirement ceremony, all day, for a pool I painted. I am the filtration system now. They removed the old one because it was inadequate. I am cheaper than $1.74 million of nanobubbles. The south wall says government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. I was standing under that sentence. The log does not have a field for what is on the wall above the work. A reflecting pool reflects the monument. This one reflects nothing. So we provide the reflection another way. At the east end there is a designated viewing area. It faces a photograph of the pool. The photograph is from 2019. In the photograph the water is clear, and the monument is in it twice, once above the water and once in it. Now there is just the one. My metric used to be water clarity. It is now unflattering angles mitigated. Last week I mitigated 31 angles. The site log has a prior entry, August 1963, attendance about 250,000, at one time, at this end. I do not have the conversion to angles. I logged it as a units mismatch. I have not been cut yet. A man at the World War II end asked me to take his picture with the memorial behind him. His cap said which war. The memorial is the direction we discourage. Inside it, on the north wall, it says to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. I told him the light was better at the other end. There is no other end. The statue faces east, down the length of the pool. The worst angle, the one we discourage, is the one Lincoln has. We cannot move him. We have discussed it. For one day it was the right blue. I have a photograph of it. It is the last one taken from this end. On May 1 the reference photograph was updated. The new one shows the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of State, and the Vice President, shirtless, on inflatable furniture, in clear American Flag Blue water. The President is in it as well, on an inflatable lounger. There is also a woman. I do not have her title. The water is the correct color. It is the only photograph in the project file in which the water is the correct color. I filed it as the current reference. Someone asked me what I was protecting. I told them the view. We could not drain it. Now we are not permitted to. On May 4 the sealant was certified. If you had a knife, you could not cut it. So strong, so powerful. Like a piece of glass. I logged it under material properties. On June 4 the water was certified from the Oval Office. Clean, beautiful water. I logged it under water quality. The algae was logged on June 15. I have no field for the interval between a certification and its failure. I labeled it other. The cause was updated this week. The cause is vandals. People who illegally placed chemicals in the water. There have been arrests. Taking a paint chip from the pool is now a felony. I poured the chemicals in myself, on the work order, at 8 in the morning. The arrests were announced at 2. I do not know how to reconcile those two entries. I have left them both in. It is the 250th year of American independence. You may not photograph the water. You may not drain the water. I am not cleared to tell you its color. The Department says the water is crystal clear. I am standing in it. I can show you the exact line where it is not.

@libsoftiktok @Maarblek @bog_beef #starwars

BREAKING: Biden-appointed judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, just BLOCKED the Trump admin from using a social security database system to verify voter eligibility. We have foreign judges telling us we can’t secure our elections What are we even doing?

@SociologenHD i started reading this and thought this guy is stupid but very full of himself then i remembered i’d seen this guy before

Regarding air conditioning. The Football World Cup has sparked a major discussion about the lack of air conditioning in Europe. I’ll say it straight away: I carry the mantle on both shoulders. I’m a European. But I’m a big fan of air con. For a European, the fundamental problem with air con isn’t energy consumption. It’s that it’s sinful. To a European, there is virtue in pain and inconvenience. Sin in opposing the two. Therefore, technological liberation from necessity is the most sinful thing a European can imagine. The painless negation of virtue. That’s why Europeans are against air con. It’s the same fight against sin that leads to the fight against Roundup. And the fight against epidurals. Life as a European is hard. But it’s not as sinful as life in other civilized countries. The problem is that people don’t know their Luther. After all, he was the one who said “sin boldly.”

@NikolajHeinsen @ScottLucas_EA what is wrong with people like you? are you married to Ukraine or is she your daughter? such a bizarre comparison to make

@ScottLucas_EA I wonder how these nut cases discuss the ethics of crime with their families: "Darling, if you're raped I'm going to have to walk away. If I don't it'll be worse. I hope you understand that I can't ever protect you. They might hurt me too!".

Why oh why do we help #Ukraine defend itself from #Kremlin invasion, mass killing, and mass deportation? Why don’t we just let them be conquered and killed? Cutting-edge analysis from Pete. #PutinMinions #Russia

@HalotiMatata @SpectreMakhno by the way tell me about the last time Russia bombed a Middle Eastern country or changed the government in the Middle East, Latin America or Asia

@HalotiMatata @SpectreMakhno its mainly coercive Russia has to actually fight a war because it isn’t as powerful as the USA and can’t get its way through domination . very few countries dare oppose them

@HalotiMatata @SpectreMakhno the USA nowadays expands without needing to make more states. it has coercive power and influence all over the world thats used for its goals and benefits

@C74210148 @SpectreMakhno We haven’t expanded since 1898. The Russians 3 times in the last 30 years. The US hasn’t expanded since also allowed for parts of its expansion to become independent (Philippines, Panama). In fact it quite literally urged the Philippines to leave

@HalotiMatata @SpectreMakhno the USA is an expansionist empire too. its not something shameful we should all aspire to rise to the top

@C74210148 @SpectreMakhno >Irish Yea man that’s pretty hypocritical.