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@jackprandelli It only do they not have an energy strategy, they don’t even have any reserves to handle a few week shock! This bad leadership and incompetent management of a critical requirement for any economy is blatantly irresponsible. I love Meloni, but all these leaders have to go.

Italy is signing its own Gulf gas deals. It's the clearest sign that Europe has no energy strategy. When the crisis hit every country ran for itself: 🇩🇪 Germany flew to Houston for LNG 🇮🇹 Meloni flew to the Gulf to sign her own deals 🇫🇷 France quietly thanked itself for keeping nuclear This isn't strategic autonomy. It's 27 countries in a panic, each cutting their own deals, paying their own premiums, with zero collective leverage. The irony? Europe has the world's largest single market. Negotiating together, it could dictate terms to any gas supplier on earth. Instead supplier by supplier, country by country they're being picked off one at a time. Russia understood this. The Gulf states understand this. Washington understands this. The only people who don't seem to understand it are in Brussels. A closed Hormuz exposed every weakness Europe built over 30 years of cheap energy complacency. No unified strategy. Just 27 prime ministers on planes looking for the same molecules That's not a union. That's a queue.

@timsoret Thank you, Tim. I have lived and traveled to Europe for over 30 years. Western Europe has been on a slow slide into immigration driven hell for most of that time. You have passed your tipping point and need real leadership to recover what you have lost. Praying for you all.

As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side. You save your pilots no matter the cost. You send humans to the moon. You fight authoritarianism head-on. It's truly inspiring. We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.

@SenWarren So disingenuous, you want to charge this tax every year. Go away, thief

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@MHTruthUltra The world will be so much better when Race is not the first topic you feel a need to discuss. He didn’t care, neither should you or anyone else.

Jesus was a brown man born in Palestine. There are no white people in the Bible. Happy Easter.

@ForgiatoBlow47 No. They should be required to pass the class on the Constitution

SHOULD COLLEGE STUDENTS BE REQUIRED TO TAKE A CLASS ON THE CONSTITUTION IN ORDER TO GRADUATE?

@AntiWokeMemes It’s a good start

What are your thoughts?!

@SaltyGoat17 And where there is the castle law, will be shot on sight.

I’d only enter my home if you’re REALLY anxious to meet those 72 virgins.

@lady_valor_07 I don’t get no respect

If you know who this man is without Googling, you're an absolute legend.

@lady_valor_07 Cadillac coupe de ville, Looks about 1978

What kind of car is this?

@lady_valor_07 All are welcome

I saw a guy saying, “This woman should never be allowed in a church.” Personally, I think she should be welcomed. What do you think, would she be welcome in your church?

@BillAckman @X I agree with your approach. Also, Implement an HR - how to behave in the workplace in the year 2026 - program and enroll your nephew quickly. Going forward have a real process for hearing & resolving noncompliance. This will serve you well against future suits. Good Luck

I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLE’s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (let’s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two years’ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Ronda’s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of ‘harassment and gender discrimination’ – an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance – and that her termination was due to: “unlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Ronda’s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Ronda’s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.” The letter goes on to explain the basis for the “unsafe work environment” claim at TABLE: “In early 2026, Pershing Square’s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackman’s family office. [His nephew]—whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackman—began appearing at TABLE’s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employees’ ages (“Tell me you are nowhere near 40”), physical appearance (“Your body does not look like you have kids”), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (“Who carried your son? Who will carry your next child?”). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]’s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.” The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLE’s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Ronda’s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didn’t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue – one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery – and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughter’s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, let’s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (let’s call it ‘the System’) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked – in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sister’s birthday party, he said ‘she must be your older sister’ – Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a “hostile and unsafe work environment” are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldn’t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this ‘claim.’ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?

@rushicrypto Bla, Bla, Bla

We are witnessing the end of the USA-dominated world order. The current US administration’s policies are leading us in that direction. Europe is getting stronger. China is getting stronger. Russia is getting stronger. US power is weakening after alienating its allies. The petrodollar is weakening, and oil may soon be traded in other currencies. The USD is weakening because of all of this, and it will be very hard to turn things around now. And the saddest part? They did it to themselves.

@MrPool_QQ Where does the 7-2 come from? Dems have 3 hardcore LIBS

🔺 THE ARCHITECTURE IS BEING REPLACED. APRIL 4, 2026. They want you focused on the two downed jets. They want you focused on the missing pilot. They want you looking at the 1,700-point market crash. Look at what they are hiding. Justice Samuel Alito was hospitalized. The Supreme Court covered it up for weeks. Why? Because the negotiations are already finished. He is stepping down. Trump is about to secure a 7-2 conservative supermajority. A firewall that will last for a generation. Do you see the sequence? 1.DOJ PURGED. (Bondi fired, Blanche installed). 2.PENTAGON PURGED. (Gen. George fired, 12+ generals removed). 3.SCOTUS SECURED. (7-2 supermajority incoming). This is not a coincidence. This is a synchronized, multi-branch takeover of the deep state apparatus. The “Liberation Day” tariffs were not about economics. They were a stress test for the QFS transition. The $1.5 TRILLION defense budget is not for Iran. It is for the GOLDEN DOME. The old system is being dismantled while you watch the fireworks in the Middle East. The 33-day operation is entering its final phase. CODE: ALITO-SECURED / 7-2-FIREWALL / GOLDEN-DOME-ACTIVE / PURGE-PROTOCOL-33 Nothing can stop what is coming. Are you watching the board?

@AzPetrich Correct. Don’t know anyone who has a problem with Jesus looking middle eastern, when he was from the Middle East.

Just a reminder for Christian's celebrating Easter this week. Jesus looked like the guy in the first picture - not the second.

@invis4yo You love us when we bend the knee. You think yourselves superior. You mock us until your appeasement gets you subjugated. Then you beg for help because the EU is weak, like a teachers lunchroom spewing ideas with no chance of seeing them through One generation from extinction

Do Americans even realize their president is basically the most hated guy on the planet right now???

@ReichlinMelnick Europe likes a compliant & lap dog style US. That buys all the globalist nonsense the EU pushes with a goal to appease The NWO is slavery by another name The US has awakened from a slumber will no longer comply We don’t appease You mock us, until you need us No more WTTPP

Not a single ounce of self-reflection as to why NATO might not trust us anymore. Not one.

@Solaris0000 @damonhtlive Trained to lie, part of your cultural heritage, and proud of it.

@GiantFanInFL28 @damonhtlive We can't be trusted. We're the evil empire here.

🚨🚨🚨 IRAN JUST PUBLISHED A FULL PEACE DEAL AND NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THE BETRAYAL HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT Let me explain what just happened. And why it's scarier than it looks. Iran's former Foreign Minister Zarif — the man who built the 2015 nuclear deal from scratch — just published a detailed peace proposal in Foreign Affairs magazine. Not on state TV. Not for domestic consumption. In Foreign Affairs. The journal that US foreign policy elites read religiously. He's not talking to Iranians. He's talking to Washington insiders. Here's the full deal: IRAN OFFERS (12 steps): 💀 Permanent halt to nuclear weapons development 💀 Reopening the Strait of Hormuz for commercial shipping 💀 Formal nonaggression pact with the US 💀 Regional security cooperation 💀 Limits on missile program 💀 Transparency measures on nuclear sites THE US MUST DO (13 steps): 💀 Remove all sanctions 💀 Finance reconstruction of bombed infrastructure 💀 Compensate Iranian civilians killed in US strikes 💀 Remove military presence from the region 💀 End support for regime change operations 💀 Normalize economic relations This sounds like a genuine off-ramp. But here's the part the headlines are missing. 💀 Iran already agreed to unprecedented concessions in Geneva on February 26, 2026. 💀 The US and Israel bombed them 48 hours later. February 28. Operation Epic Fury. 💀 This is the SECOND time this happened. In June 2025, the US launched Operation Midnight Hammer — bombing Iran's nuclear facilities WHILE TALKS WERE ACTIVELY HAPPENING. Not before talks. Not after. DURING. ⚠️ So Zarif is not naive. He knows what happened. Twice. He's publishing this in Foreign Affairs because he wants the American establishment — the think tanks, the diplomats, the serious people — to see it in black and white. "We offered everything. Twice. And you bombed us anyway." He's building a record. Now here's the scary part. Oil is at $111. Brent crude hit $141 spot price. JPMorgan has already modeled $150 if Hormuz stays closed. Iran and Oman are already drafting a joint protocol to supervise Hormuz transit. This is happening whether the US wants it to or not. Trump's deadline was April 6. Open Hormuz or face "obliteration." Iran's answer was this peace proposal. ⚠️ Think about what that means. If the US bombs again, after Iran published a detailed peace proposal in the world's most respected foreign policy journal — the diplomatic cover for the attack evaporates completely. The world will have receipts. That's the play. Zarif isn't asking for peace. He's setting a trap for history.

@DouglasDow8 @damonhtlive Good to see the dissenters are so very articulate at ad hominem attacks. Really helps make your point…

@GiantFanInFL28 @damonhtlive LOL, moron. There's no deal to be had . Iran will prevail, duh ....

@devet_sedam @damonhtlive A deal they were holding to? I guess all those missiles, drones, ICBMs, and enriched uranium just magically appeared one night.

@GiantFanInFL28 @damonhtlive Trump tore up a deal that Iran was holding to. US and Isreal bombed Iran twice while in negotiations, targeting civilians and its leadership including those they were negotiating with. Which side cannot be trusted?

@DrCalumMiller How far should the world let Iran go toward a nuclear weapon before they stepped in Dr. Miller? And who would do it? Should they have been able to do Nuclear testing underground or over Israel before we did something? Exactly when would you do something to stop them? When?

Utterly pathetic. NATO has no responsibility to join in wars of aggression.