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I want a truck with no GPS or tracking. I want a house that doesn't spy on me. I want a government that builds roads and maintains the military and stays out of my business. I want the constitution of the United States respected and upheld. I want the government to be the last thing I ever think about, just like the founders intended.

Someone once observed that in any conflict, leftists will always side with whichever demographic causes the most social harm. This creates a hierarchy, with White men (the primary civilization-builders) at the bottom, and third-world Muslims at the top. Here's why how this works. In a healthy society, people who build civilization are revered, and people who cause social harm are despised. And there is a hierarchy that runs in the opposite order, with respect and resources going to those who serve civilization. This creates a natural opportunity for power-hungry subversives. They can recruit each layer of this hierarchy by exploiting their resentment against those above them. All they must do is frame their merit-based status as unearned "privilege". White women were recruited to leftism by stoking their resentment of White men, and promising elevation above them. What the White women were not told is that they would be placed beneath everyone else. Often literally. Black people were recruited by exploiting their resentment of Whites... but they weren't told that every benefit they received would eventually be taken away and given to third world immigrants. Homosexuals were promised elevation above the "breeders" (because children are needed for civilization, and sodomy is not), but no one told them that the trannies would rule over them. And no one told the trannies that Muslim community would be allowed to segregate and oppress them far more brutally than the most ardent of White bigots. The most brutal irony of all is that all of these groups who are recruited to fight for leftism end up far more brutally oppressed that they ever were by mainstream prosocial White society. Because natural civilizational hierarchies are based on contribution. There's a certain amount of prejudice which exists because people can reason inductively, but if you are a mixed race lesbian engineer who can actually who build useful shit, then it's at least possible for people to eventually overcome their surprise, and break you off a nice house in the suburbs and some forbearance wherein people don't really talk about the real relationship between you and your "roommate". Under leftism inverted hierarchies, you have no such chance. Sure, during the transitional phase you'll be elevated for being a mixed-race lesbian, regardless of whether you can do anything useful or not. But then, the Muslims will be allowed to throw you off a roof when it's time to pander to them, in turn. This White (or White-passing) woman probably voted straight democrat and cheered for "MeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeToo", to avenge her resentment against White men in general. She probably never dreamed that she would, in turn, not only be thrown under the bus, but that she would be targeted by the precise same weapons her sisters were given to unseat White men with. And @jk_rowling found out in vivid, larger-than-life detail what happens to White feminists when the left has a new darling to cater to, who can be used to unravel some still-intact piece of civilization. You see, by the early 21st century, the left had no more use for White feminists, because everything the left wanted to use them to destroy was already destroyed. Women were already spending their twenties and thirties on cubicle jobs and abortions, instead of marriages and children. The workforce was already doubled, and the price of labor had already crashed. Fertility rates were already dropping, and people were already marrying late, or never. It was time to recruit a new wrecking ball, to turn against some other corner of the edifice of order, and the price of that was easy to pay... just confiscate everything you once gave them, and give it to the trannies instead. The actual bodies of the White feminists (as well as all other women, and their daughters), could be used again, sold out to third world men who want to rape them, all by simply turning a blind eye. And the best perk of all of this is that they'll still vote for you. Because reversing course requires admitting a mistake.

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

The math is not simple. The math is devastating. And presenting it as simple is either ignorant or dishonest. That $100 billion in federal Medicaid funding wasn’t “taken out of California healthcare.” A significant portion of that was matching funds the federal government was paying in that were generated through a provider tax scheme where California taxes its own Medicaid insurers, then reimburses them for the tax, then claims the reimbursement as spending, and collects federal matching funds on money that was never real spending in the first place. In 2023, that MCO tax rate on Medi-Cal enrollees was $182.50 per month, while the rate on commercial insurance enrollees was $1.75 per month. That’s a ratio of roughly 104 to 1. The federal agency that approved this scheme now calls it money laundering. Their word, not mine. California extracted $19 billion in federal funds this way with zero state contribution. That’s not healthcare funding. That’s a financial engineering mechanism that got shut down. Now the billionaire tax. You say the math comes out heavily in favor. Here’s the math you left out: $700 billion in capital has already fled the state since the measure was announced. Six billionaires left before the January 1 cutoff, taking an estimated $26.8 billion, a quarter of your projected $100 billion, with them. The Hoover Institution projects the measure will cost California a net $25 billion when you account for the permanent loss of ongoing income tax revenue from departed residents. A UC Berkeley economics professor said it has the potential to completely destroy California’s economy. You cited Jensen Huang staying. One man. While six already left taking $700 billion out the door with them. You asked why Newsom opposes this. He opposes it because he can read a balance sheet, which is more than I can say for this thread. Even Newsom understands that California’s general fund is 70% personal income tax, and that nearly half of that comes from the top 1%. And that a one-time wealth grab that permanently drives out the people who fund the state every single year is fiscal suicide. Maxine Waters saying she doesn’t understand why he opposes it is not a flex. It just demonstrates that she doesn't understand the math either. Your thread presents a fairy tale: the mean federal government took our money, and 200 generous billionaires can put it back. The reality is that California built a system that depended on extracting unlimited federal funds through opaque enrollment, inflated spending, and financial mechanisms that equate to fraud. That system is collapsing. And raiding 200 people’s net worth to prop it up one more time will accelerate the collapse, not prevent it.

I do think it’s funny that we’ve had an extremely obvious, blatant example of a far left government agency in a blue state retaliating against Elon Musk because of his political views, and nobody in the media cared even a little

What radicalized you?   For me, it happened back in my freshman year of high school in the early 2000s. The head coach of our hockey team believed in getting the team home to our own beds after road games no matter what instead of staying in hotels. Hotels were a distraction. With no hotel costs, he wanted to use the money to upgrade our road meals. Nothing fancy, just basic meat and potatoes type places like Cracker Barrel or Perkins instead of cold Little Caesars on a dark January bus ride home across rural North Dakota. The athletic director and superintendent shut the idea down and basically just absorbed the savings from his no hotel policy into the athletics budget. So after that our coach, the other assistants, the parents, and us players started fundraising in the off‑season in hopes to get better meals on the road. The first year went great. We raised a ton and were easily able to have nicer sit down meals on every single trip. We all sat together at big tables, had actual food choices, ate healthier and built even more camaraderie. It was fantastic all around. But then other sports teams and parents caught wind. It was seen as unfair. The AD, principal, and superintendent demanded we stop, in order to keep things “equal” across all sports at our public school. They even tried to force our coach to hand over the privately raised money so it could be redistributed. Thankfully, our coach was an old‑school Canadian ex‑pro hockey player who didn’t take shit from anyone, and told them to F off, and we continued with our meatloaf road meals as planned. The principal and AD eventually backed off, but the superintendent had a vendetta against our team and probably mostly just our coach so he never stopped. He even went as low as instructing bus drivers not to take us to the restaurants we’d planned for on the road. Our coach always overrode it, once even driving the bus himself since he had the license from coaching cross‑country. Over the next few years we continued the fundraising for better meals. Some of the other teams, and other parents continued to badger the supt., our coach and even sometime us players about it instead of just joining us in fundraising. Watching peers and especially some of our own “leaders” work so hard to sabotage a positive thing for us was eye opening and really stuck with us. It gave us an early look at how petty and nefarious and systems and people can be, even at the local level. And honestly, in the end, all it did was radicalize about 30 teenage hockey players for the rest of their lives who walked away believing “equality” was the dirtiest word in the English language. 😂

Listen to how @SenSchumer talks about Black people, like we're his fucking pets. I dunno about you, but creating TWO majority-Black districts to entrench Democrat power in perpetuity seems a LOT like a 250mile-long plantation. These Democrat fuckers went ALL THE WAY BACK to their slaver roots, and have the GALL to call SOMETHING ELSE "Jim Crow." Go FUCK yourself, Chuck.

NBC leaves so much out of this story They leave the Congo,(because of the war), travel to Brazil and then use coyotes,(reportedly), to enter illegally in Arizona and then get moved to Maine... There they got welfare and got an Asylum Hearing AND an Appeal in early 2025 When they lost both, they didn't say ok, time to go, ICE had to get involved to remove them So they traveled half way across the world through TONS of safe countries to make it to Portland Maine for the Welfare... And now its being framed as some sob story

John Thune has become a punching bag for good reason but there is a more insidious force at play nobody can talk about. Let me explain… The staffers in Thune’s office have been asking Trump Naval and Maritime appointees questions about me before confirmation hearings. I doubt John Thune knows who I am. His staff absolutely does. They track me. They hate me. And they will quietly bleed pushing out any appointee I’m friends with. Someone close to PPO told me a Trump staffer commented that “Konrad should be a HBS case study on someone every in the administration respects but has zero chance of any appointment.” It’s probably because I’ve called out congressional staffers numerous times before. This is how Congress actually works. It’s always the staffers. When we first floated the SHIPS Act, Mike Johnson’s hometown delegation were strong supporters. The minute he became Speaker, his hometown people got bulldozed by the Speaker of the House staff he inherited. Same man, different staff, different priorities. Why do you think they wanted Mitch McConnell propped up after the freezing episodes? It wasn’t McConnell. It was the cartel of people on his staff who needed his chair filled by someone they already controlled. Members can’t read their own bills anymore. Thirty years of capped staff, frozen pay, and brain drain to K Street has left rank and file senators functionally illiterate on the legislation they vote on. Leadership staff fill the vacuum. They are not entrenched because they are corrupt. They are entrenched because nobody else in the building can move a 1,500-page must-pass bill through conference. That is the cartel. And it has rules. If you want anything in the NDAA, the omnibus, the CR, or any vehicle that actually moves, you do not piss them off. You do not name them. Break either rule and you do not get a second omnibus. I’m not even willing to name individual staff. John Phelan is the case study nobody is reading correctly. Phelan was not fired because he was a bad secretary. Phelan was fired because his chief of staff Jon Harrison had deep knowledge of the pentagon that Phelan lacked. Without him, Phelan was walking around the Pentagon naked and he knew it. He pulled back from media events and became too cautious. Then there is Susie Wiles. I don’t know her. Never met her. From everything I can piece together she is doing a great job. The point is not Susie. The point is the Vanity Fair article. It’s not even the article itself, that article contained a lot of BS, it was the reaction that came after. Every single republican & a few democrats stood behind her. Now contrast that with the flood of negative articles about Mike Waltz, Kristi Noem or Pam Bondi. When a politician is the subject of a hut piece is dragged over the coals, the system shrugs. But when it’s a senior staffer, the system closes rank. It is safer to trash Trump in print than to be perceived as trashing Susie. Trump is used to it. Susie controls the schedule, the access, and the door. Multiply Susie by every leadership chief of staff, every NDAA conference staffer, & you have the machine. It is not partisan. Schumer’s staff & Thune’s staff protect each other from outside critics more reliably than they protect their own bosses from each other. Leaders come and go but leadership staff is entrenched. Congress is broken because leadership staff on both sides want it to remain broken. A Congress that can only legislate through 2,000-page must-pass bill is a Congress where the staff who draft the bill run the country. Regular order is their extinction event. They will never let it come back voluntarily. You can call out politicians all day. They are used to it. Call out the staff and you don’t get frozen out of one bill. You get frozen out of every bill, by every office, on both sides, for as long as the cartel decides to remember your name. They remember mine. Now you know why.​​​​​​​​​​​​​ even Luna can’t vall them out.

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed, by a lunatic who wanted to impress Jodie Foster. Reagan famously quipped to the doctors in the emergency room, “I hope you are all Republicans.” Dr. Joseph Giordano, the head of the trauma team, responded “We’re all Republicans today, Mr. President.” Dr. Giordano’s comment captured the mood of the country at the time. No decent person wanted to see our president assassinated. If this happened today, Dr. Giordano would be derided and condemned by the lunatic Left. They might even call to revoke his medical license, for “hate speech.” BlueSky would be lit up with people bemoaning that the shooter’s aim wasn’t better. A large swath of people would declare Reagan staged the whole thing, to boost his then sagging popularity. Any of this 2026 behavior in 1981 would have been correctly viewed as deranged. Today, it’s still deranged imho, but also viewed as acceptable by at least a third of the country. How did we fall so far?

@NihilNothings STEM kids have to deal with reality in order to build and fix things. They also have a sense of proportion, understand emergent properties, and know how to do math. This usually allows them to understand that Marxism not only does not work, but cannot work.

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Today I was first in line in an intersection, and a bicyclist unsafely entered the intersection and get hit by a car. The couple in the car were so happy I had a recording. I shared it with them and the police. The wife said: “I’ll take back all the bad things I said about Tesla” 😂 I told her forget about the people involved, the technically is amazing.

Yesterday, I predicted that for the next 24-hours the leftist progressive media and politicians would be lecturing us that we need to “turn down the temperature” and stop the violent rhetoric, only to immediately go back to encouraging their followers to ramp it up. They got me this time. Instead, their new script, post initial 24-hours, is “both sides need to turn down the rhetoric.” This is the trap. This is how they drag us into their dystopian narrative and make us “just as evil as they are.” They push prepared lines like “it’s all of us” and “we all share responsibility,” hoping to dilute their own guilt by forcing us to carry a burden they never actually feel. It’s not “all of us” when one side feels zero guilt. The sociopathic level of their thinking is off the charts. We do not live in a shared society with them. We do not operate under the same morals or ethics. They believe the ends justify the means, and their “ends” equate to them standing on our throats.

I said it the other day, and I’ll carve it into the fucking marble of this republic: we need to run this country the way Nayib Bukele runs El Salvador. He was right. Dead right. Ruthlessly, unapologetically, lethally right. Look at the scoreboard, because numbers don’t lie and ideology does. When Bukele took office in 2019, El Salvador was bleeding out...homicide rate north of 38 per 100,000 souls, MS-13 and Barrio 18 cartels carving up neighborhoods like butchers in a slaughterhouse. Fast-forward to today: under 2 homicides per 100,000. A 97-percent-plus annihilation of the murder rate. Eighty-plus murders for the entire year in a nation of 6.5 million, every single one solved. Over 91,000 gang predators swept off the streets in the state of exception. Prisons overflowing, but streets breathing free for the first time in a generation. And his approval? Still hovering at 85 to 94 percent in poll after poll...because results are the ultimate referendum. That wasn’t magic. That was will. Bukele understood what our Marxist-infested justice apparatus refuses to admit: criminals are not misunderstood victims of “systemic” phantoms. They are predators who respond to one language...overwhelming, certain, ferocious consequence. Psychology 101, straight from the evolutionary hardwiring of the human animal: deterrence is not a theory, it’s biology. Show weakness, and the jackals multiply. Project unbreakable strength, and the pack scatters. Bukele projected strength. He suspended the procedural theater that gangs exploited like a get-out-of-jail-free card, flooded the zones with iron, and told the savages the party was over. No more negotiating with terrorists wearing tattoos. No more Soros-funded NGOs wringing their hands while grandmothers buried grandchildren. Here in America, we are drowning in the opposite pathology. We had open borders funneling MS-13 franchises into our cities like an invasion force. We have district attorneys...elected on Marxist manifestos, bankrolled by the same globalist poison that tried to kneecap Bukele...treating repeat killers like clients and law-abiding citizens like suspects. We have a federal justice system that spends more energy hunting parents at school boards than hunting cartel butchers who turn neighborhoods into kill zones. This isn’t incompetence. It’s ideological capture. Cultural Marxism didn’t storm the barricades; it infiltrated the law schools, the NGOs, the bench, and the prosecutor’s offices, teaching that punishment itself is the original sin. The result? Predators feel emboldened because they know the system will coddle them, delay them, release them, and then lecture the rest of us about “root causes” while our daughters walk to school in fear. Legally, the social contract is crystal clear...Locke, Blackstone, the Framers: the first duty of legitimate government is to secure the natural rights of the people by punishing the wicked and protecting the innocent. Not “equity.” Not therapy. Not performative compassion that leaves blood on the pavement. When the state abdicates that duty, it doesn’t become merciful; it becomes complicit in the predation. Bukele restored the state’s monopoly on legitimate violence where it belongs...against the actual enemies of civilized order. We could do the same tomorrow: RICO the gangs into oblivion, revive mandatory minimums with teeth, deport every illegal criminal alien the second the cuffs click, and purge the Soros DAs who treat the Constitution like a suicide pact. No new laws required...just the balls to enforce the ones already written. No more half-measures. No more Marxist scumbags in. Time to run this fucking country like a sovereign nation that values its people more than its ideological fetishes. The alternative isn’t compassion. It’s surrender. And surrender is no longer an option.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 💀⚖️🗡️

@DerekBFSD @wholemars It's amazing what you might notice when you don't have your face planted in a phone. I hate people wandering near cars and staring at their phone. Pretty big assumption on their part that the drivers are paying attention.

Costco Summon testing from the backseat with 14.3! It was a ton of fun to see people’s reaction!

@wholemars I'm still on HW3/12.6.4 and even if I'm driving manually I'll turn on FSD at night for the last half mile to my home because I live in a poorly-lit neighborhood with cars parked on both sides of the street. It seems better than humans and has shown me that many times in 8 years.

This one legitimately blew my mind. Tesla Self-Driving began slowing down for this pedestrian before he even walked out from between the cars. We didn’t see him at all. We were like “why is the car slowing?” Then he stepped out. This shit is superhuman. Indisputably

Last night, CNN, TMZ, CBS and others reported the dinner gunman was “confirmed dead.” In fact, he was alive and had not been shot. (Just shot at). At a dinner honoring White House reporting, the rush to be first instead of being accurate was on full display. Speaks volumes.

@realdavidrhine @niccruzpatane Tires add 1-2¢/mile depending on the tires and how you treat them. Wiper fluid and wipers is maybe $25/yr avg. Cabin air filter is $30/2yrs. Brake job at 100k-300k miles depending how you drive, let regen do the braking instead.

@niccruzpatane So what is total cost/mile over life of battery (other consumable besides electric)?

A lot of people wonder how much charging costs while roadtripping a Tesla. In March, I drove my Tesla Model 3 Performance from Toronto to Nashville. The total distance for the trip was around 1,650 miles. The total cost of Supercharging was $186 USD, or 11.27 ¢/mile. Keep in mind, I was driving a 500 hp sports car in Mad Max/Hurry Mode with summer tires in cooler March weather. The goal of the drive wasn’t even about efficiency, so considering that, the numbers are pretty impressive imo.

No U.S. media company should EVER be allowed to sell majority control to China. A Chinese investor owns 51% of Forbes since 2014. Forbes, an American media icon, now answering to foreign interests. From celebrating capitalists to attacking the very people who built 🇺🇸.

@CarbroShow @LamarMK It may be market-specific. Are 5 year "bumper-to-bumper" (as they're called in America) warranties common over there?

@LamarMK It’s interesting you posted this article. I was questioning if Teslas built in China are better quality. In Australia they have 5 years unlimited warranty. x.com/carbroshow/sta…

Tesla has the best worry free warranty in the auto industry. Let me tell you why. Other automakers will throw out big numbers like 10 years or 100,000 miles. But the second you try to make a claim, they put you through hoop after hoop. They'll find any reason to deny the work or charge you for something extra. With Tesla the experience is seamless. Nobody is out to get you. Everything in the car is logged, so they know exactly what failed. You open the app, schedule a service appointment, and they fix it no questions asked. You even get a loaner. Tesla's basic warranty is 4 years or 50,000 miles. The battery and drive unit is covered for 8 years and up to 150,000 miles depending on the model. And 2026 model years now get a 7 year propulsion warranty on expensive components. If you want peace of mind and don't want to worry about a dealership ripping you off down the line, buy a Tesla. I'm a very happy Tesla customer. Who else has had a smooth warranty experience with Tesla?