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If your intention is to light my house on fire… You are my enemy.

This campaign is so clever. Democrats are no doubt losing their sh*t over this one. Just so funny.

People laugh but this will be a major epidemic in just a decade or two, unlocking new galaxy brain tiers of mental illness and granting final legitimacy to the assisted suicide industry

🧿The Hormuz Crisis is not an oil crisis. It cannot be compared to past oil shocks. 🧿It is not an energy crisis. It cannot be compared to what the US experienced in 1972-1973 or any other in Europe. 🧿It is not a lockdown crisis. It cannot be compared to COVID-19. 🧿The Hormuz Crisis is a manufactured global crisis — the largest since World War II, intended to change the global economic and financial system and trade patterns. Its ramifications across every sector, every industry, and every field are beyond our current comprehension. We will learn as we go. 🧿The innocence is gone forever.

NEW: 🇺🇸 The CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, says ordinary people’s savings accounts and pension funds, worth trillions of dollars will be used to build data centers and power grids for AI He says that people will be forced to invest in it “Much of this will come from savings accounts and pension accounts.”

Gentle reminder that the wealthiest 10% of American households own approximately 87% to 93% of all U.S. stock market wealth. Hence the booming stock market juxtaposed against plummeting consumer confidence. Riddle solved.

I don't think women really understand this... Men can stop this. They can stop it almost immediately. Vigilante and extrajudicial means will be sufficient to deal with this, but they won't. In my observations, a lot of men would LOVE to handle this. They fantasize about it. Yet they refuse to do it. Why? Surely, some of it is cowardice and whatnot but the real reason is that they believe that the second they did, women would throw them under the bus instead of being grateful. The tragedy is that I suspect they're right. I don't think that modern women would show gratitude. I think they would be repulsed by the violence used on their behalf, and would feel guilty (like Helen of Troy did). They would twist it (the ideology is already in place) and turn it against men, and transfer their affections and sympathies to the men who would victimize them rather than the men who'd protect them. We've already seen this play out in Europe so it's not wild speculation. If a neighborhood decided to start a neighborhood watch that "handled" immigrant criminals in a severe manner, they'd have no reason to think that they wouldn't be turned in immediately by their local women. Everyone knows it too. They know that there's some boomer or "woke" girl, or just some "nice Christian" girl who thinks that vigilante justice is bad, or that "violence is never the answer." The harsh truth is that if women want men to protect them, men will, but women are not conducting themselves (or regulating their peers) such that men feel inclined to do this. Imagine if at the end of the movie "Taken," the daughter turned her father in because he broke the law. That's basically what modern men expect women to do.

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax - Milton Friedman Inflation is taxation that doesn’t require a tax bill

Once you are aware, you become responsible. Everybody avoids awareness because they don’t want responsibility.

The permanent vibecession is here to stay

Would it surprise you to know New York State spends more than 170 countries? $268.5 billion. More than Norway. More than Poland. More than Israel. More than Sweden. We could finance the three countries of South Africa, Chile and Bangladesh. ALL THREE! Countries that together fund militaries, embassies, and navies. Albany funds none of that and still spends more. $13,400 per resident. Highest of any major state in America. A $27.5 billion deficit already projected by 2030. My friends, this is what runaway government looks like. New Yorkers pay the most and get the least accountability for where their money goes. That has to change or New York is barreling towards bankruptcy.

I always think of this quote on memorial weekend.

@rumi1776 Yep. When you consider that the world is full of endocrine disruptors and essentially all of them are estrogenic, it’s likely wreaking havoc on the males and pushing the females toward earlier maturity.

Trump said that if Kamala Harris wins the election, gas prices will go up by 25%. Grok: “Gas prices have gone up by 69% this year under President Trump.”

🚨Trump is now single handedly responsible for 27.7% of the national debt. This is dramatically more than any President in American history.

Lindsey Graham, Ben Shapiro, and Mark Levin’s preferred foreign policy left Iran stronger, with control over the Strait of Hormuz, so to save face, they want even more killing. The Strait was open before the war, and all the Trump admin had to do to avoid this result was listen to Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, MTG, and Thomas Massie instead of the Never Trumpers. You can’t make it up.

@shamula I love seeing smart things from smart people! You should have a class on @spencerpratt

@CashPetti I love guerilla marketing! TY.

Awesome @shamula

This interview with @frankwrighter, a mostly unknown citizen of the UK, is rightfully getting a lot of attention. His primary points, expressed with remarkable clarity and independence of thought: * Market worship by conservatives (Tories) has degraded society into soulless commoditization of human beings. * Neoliberal globalism deliberately obliterates identifiable culture and civilization in favor of one undifferentiated global mass of limitless consumerism, along with the destruction of dignity, community and work. * Western democracy is driven by branding exercises based on promises that are cynically designed never to be fulfilled. * Echoing the broader populist-right European view (except for Nigel Farage/Reform): The Trump/Netanyahu Iran War and others wars like it are fought for a tiny class of global elites, bringing nothing of value to ordinary citizens except debt and destruction. * The driving force behind these wars is Israel and these wars are fought for its interests. He's at a Restore Britain rally, but the overlap with a lot of populist left views is extremely obvious:

Rainy day in New York. So I read the state budget. All 4,000+ pages of it (10 bills). It’s a novel. A very expensive one. Written with your money. How does any of this make New York more affordable for you? $6M — FIFA soccer fields. Because the World Cup. $10M — Grants for nonprofits to buy their own buildings. $160M — Quantum computing hubs. Five of them. $500M — Cash bailout for NYC. Upstate pays. $4B total to make Zohran happy. $103M — Arts Council grants. Plus $8M just to run the agency. $75M — Subway design studies. No shovels. Just studies. Full list in the slide. $268.5 billion. $2.4 billion in items that do nothing for your life. Aren’t you tired of this? Put me in that room. I’ll be the loudest guy at the table. I promise. New Yorkers pay the most. It’s time someone fought for them.