MAGAinNorCal

@2aHistory @HarmeetKDhillon I don't doubt that!

@MAGAinNorCal @HarmeetKDhillon Basically never. It'll take SCOTUS.

This lawsuit against overly oppressive gun permit schemes is in the same circuit court that overturned NJ's AWB and magazine bans Friday. Love to see it! Keep it up, DOJ!

@HollywoodInToto We have dates!!! hotair.com/mark-judge/202…

@thejimjams Until there are convictions, this is a non-story. 2-tier justice. Does anyone seriously believe Clinton will face prosecution? Do any prosecutors really want to end up on that hit list?

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has confirmed that former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey & former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are likely to face indictments due to their involvement in the Russiagate scandal.

@walterkirn Sold out…darn!

Congratulations, Duncan. You, as much anyone I know -- more-- were dealt a crappy hand as a working artist, kicked aside by the system, wandered in the wilderness, and are turning it all around in a passionate, winning, meaningful fashion. This is going to be great.

@AAGDhillon - CA needs your help! breitbart.com/sports/2026/07…

@mikeroweworks A friend recently gave me the book The Gales of November. Of course I knew part of the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but had no idea of the importance of US shipping of iron ore on the Great Lakes. Without that capability, major wars might have ended quite differently.

bit.ly/TWIHI494ScottB… Last month, I was invited to The Reagan National Economic Forum. Why I get invited to events like this is a bit of a mystery, but I was glad to attend and looked forward to hearing about the state of our economy, our public markets, and the defense industrial space from a number of notables. In fact, it occurred to me that if I was interested in hearing from these people, perhaps you might be, too? So, I asked the organizers if I could bring a small camera crew with me and record a few episodes of the podcast right there at the Reagan Library. They said sure. Then I asked a few of the attendees if they’d like to sit for a chat, and everyone I asked said they’d be delighted, including the @SecScottBessent. I knew I wanted to talk to Scott a few days earlier, when I saw him running a press conference from the White House. The way he handled the reporters made me laugh out loud. (Why are they always shouting? How does he decide who to call on? Who can be counted on to ask the most reliably foolish questions?) And, then again the next morning, when he was back on the TV, gently asking one of his interlocutors in a Congressional hearing how they’d become so “profoundly uninformed about market fundamentals.” And finally, at the Economic Forum itself, when he delivered one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard from a sitting cabinet member. It was called, While America Slept, and I wish it were published on the front page of every newspaper still in production. The entire speech is here, bit.ly/4vAhuEX, but in short, Bessent argued for something Washington has spent decades avoiding: a serious American industrial policy that starts with a simple acknowledgement that some things matter too much to be left entirely to quarterly earnings, short-term cost-cutting or the lowest foreign bidder. Every paragraph is a truth bomb. “For four decades we worshipped efficiency. Production chased the lowest cost on earth. Inventories shrank to nothing. The price tag on the shelf became the only scorecard that counted. We mistook comfort for strength. We treated efficiency as a substitute for resilience.” And this one.. “A country cannot outsource its industrial commons, ignore strategic concentration, and expect to remain secure, for manufacturing is more than output on a balance sheet. It is a reservoir of practical capability: engineers and welders, tool-and-die makers and logistics networks, plant managers and workers who know how to solve problems on the factory floor. When that ecosystem is strong, a country can adapt quickly. When it is hollowed out, adaptation becomes slower, more costly, and less certain.” There are so many examples of this, but shipbuilding really makes the point. In 2023, Chinese shipyards turned out 972 oceangoing commercial ships. The US built seven. The Office of Naval Intelligence puts China’s shipbuilding capacity at roughly 200 times our own, and the rare earth situation is even worse. According to the International Energy Agency, China refines over 90 percent of the world’s supply. We're talking about nearly all the heavy elements that make guided missiles fly, fighter jets soar, and the magnets inside almost every single electric motor actually spin. Why did we just hand that over? Well, because refining rocks is a dirty job, and we figured it was easier to let somebody else do the heavy lifting for less money. Reasonable people can disagree on the impact of tariffs, and the endless compromises baked into countless trade deals that force our manufacturers to compete on an un-level playing field. But the decision to depend on China – a direct rival - for the very backbone of our own national defense is flat out nuts. Surge capacity isn't something we can just conjure up overnight. Strong supplier networks, specialized machine tools, and—most importantly—the skilled tradespeople who know how to use them take generations to build. Our whole conversation is here. bit.ly/TWIHI494ScottB… Hope you like it. I’ve got a few more in the can from this same event, and they’re all better than average. PS. Not that it needs disclosing, but you should know that I’m up to my neck with a new initiative to reinvigorate the skilled trades called BuildFreedom.US, sponsored by the DoW. This is the same campaign I lobbied Congress for 15 years ago, and I’m happy to see it finally come to fruition. You’ll find thousands of trade jobs in the industrial base highlighted on the website, along with lots of scholarship money from mikeroweWORKS, (including a $10 million donation from Build Freedom. Also, I’m currently involved with an American mineral company that’s determined to claw back a measure of our “metal independence” from China. Along with rare earths, (which aren’t really rare,) we’ll be collecting a few million tons of polymetallic nodules from the bottom of the ocean – billiard sized rocks packed with critical minerals like nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese. More on both, later. PPS Lots and LOTS of feedback from my conversation with JD Vance last week, including (grave) concerns from several listeners who fear I’m entering the world of politics, and troubled by occasional appearance of government officials on the podcast. The Secretary’s appearance will no doubt exacerbate those concerns. Well, fear not. I have no plans to take the podcast in a different direction. The guests will continue to be individuals that I find interesting, or relevant to things that I’m engaged in. Some will almost certainly do or say things you don’t agree with. I can live with that, and hope you can, too.

@gregisenberg You often post about disruptive opportunities that you think are achievable for new creators. Can you walk through what you expect the true cost of using AI platforms to accomplish one of these goals might be? the tech is there, but what does it really cost?

What's the ONE thing you'd ask me if you had me on the phone? Startups, AI agents, life, literally anything. I'll answer a few live on a stream tomorrow, July 16th at 12:15p ET. I'll also break down the 8 best AI/startup tweets on the timeline right now. Reply below.

@HarmeetKDhillon Isn't that your third this week?

90° 10 miles walked. Banana Nutella.

@JustineBateman This isn’t a group with a slightly different view of how to achieve common goals. Their stated desire is to destroy our culture and nation. They're domestic enemies and should be fought and destroyed as such.

These people are ridiculous. They have lost all tethers to a sense of self. Their entire identity now relies on this treasonous hate of America. They make up fantasies of how horrible America never was to justify their need to "fight tyranny." They have no identity but this. And they cling to it with a death grip, because they have nothing else. None of it is true. Not the fantasy about America about which she is shrieking, not her identity of believing herself to be some "hero" in a movie about an oppressive government, and not the resulting congress-free, senate-free, President-free, childish (and completely chaotic) future she sees for this country. She is an infant. She and others like her will not get their way. Not even close. If you have a modicum of common sense, it's time to let your line in the sand about tolerance be made known. Myself, I have a limit to tolerance. I have a limit to patience. I know there is a limit to free speech. If your plan is to tear down the United States of America, if your plan is treason, I will not tolerate you, I will have zero patience for you, and I will not defend your right to free speech. @FBI @FBIDirectorKash

@DeItaone When will people starting referring to communists in the USA for what they are - domestic enemies? When will the US start treating these domestic enemies in the same manner as foreign enemies? These enemies have progressed too far as it is. They’re not going to stop on their own.

TRUMP WARNS OF 'COMMUNISTS' President Trump said "communists" want to destroy the United States, using the label to criticize Democratic socialist candidates during an event promoting Trump Accounts. Responding to a question about the program, Trump argued the investment initiative could become one of his signature policy achievements while renewing attacks on his political opponents.

@RepNancyMace @thejimjams You're an elected member of the House. You have subpoena power! Why are you asking this on social media? Do your job, please!

Who's paying off John Thune? Asking for a friend.

@elonmusk If we're not willing to secure our country, what's the relevance of elections?

💯

@libsoftiktok @thejimjams @grok is this true?

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled 6-3 that green card holders can be STRIPPED of their legal status if they have pending criminal charges when trying to re-enter the country. The three liberal judges dissented.

@DC_Draino @thejimjams They're domestic enemies. They're trying 2 destroy our country & our elected officials & military servicemen have taken an oath to protect us from this attack. The conspiracy folks say "they" want a civil war so martial law can be imposed, and the socialists get what they want.

We have to stop calling them socialists. That’s what they call themselves to hide their true intentions. They’re violent, tyrannical communists.

@GrumpyTechBro Can you start a sentence without "So"? And "anyways", really? If you want to make a point, just make it.

Story time: So I felt strongly about this post. So I thought, it's worth $100 to SAVE America. $10/day for ten days. I can afford that. Never boost if you're political, or even just a truth-focused engineer, because boosting shows your post outside your tribe, and the more truthful it is, the more it will rattle the anti-tribe's cages. And the anti-tribe LOVEs to pile on. (I had grok check everything in the post below. ) So I'm sure I got massreported. So X shut off my account. Of course, that's just a guess, but perhaps you should repost the post below anyways, because f'em. On the other hand, God gives you what you need, not what you want, I guess God needed me to dig into the DOT data and find those 44,000 sketchy truckers... Anyways, off to bar trivia.

@mattkim1 @elonmusk Oddly, for one of the most densely populated countries, not a single person in view on the streets, except for what might be a construction worker? No one even in the reflections of the glass. Where is everyone?

I’ve been living immersed in South Korea for the last month with my wife and daughter. We just leave the stroller outside if we go in anywhere. Because no one’s going to steal it. I met a friend for lunch. He rode his bicycle. He just left it outside in an alley without a lock. It was still there 2 hours later. Another friend mistakenly left his phone on a park bench. When he finally retraced his steps and went back 4 hours later, his iPhone was still there. I walked by a KPop concert. The fans who traveled from outside of Seoul to attend just left their luggage outside the subway station. No locks. No security. Koreans take this for granted. They don’t realize this is not normal for most the world, especially America. When I ask about it, they just respond, “of course, why would someone take it?” Can you imagine any of these things happening or being possible in NYC or LA or *insert city*? And IF, something were to be stolen in Korea, the police would investigate. Because in a high trust society, rules and norms matter. There’s no “under $1000” law. Theft is theft. And trust is trust. Will this social norm ever be possible in America?

@mattvanswol @DataRepublican These funders are domestic enemies, against whom our elected officials have sworn an oath to protect us. Until we treat them that way, the enemies will continue to advance. The right needs to pound this issue as aggressively as the left screams they’re trying to “save democracy

@DataRepublican One of the best things you’ve ever written… I firmly believe that the only way to stop the Left is to go after the funders. The Right has no comparison even remotely close to the scope and scale of the funding and organization of this. Genuinely horrifying

@GaryMarcus A Tesla can fly, why not pigs? Just change your frame of reference.

And pigs could fly!

@markgjudge Good old Tastee Diner! I was there 3 months ago and I'd swear the interior hasn't changed in over 30 years. Sad to say the prices have though!