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I have to pin this. 🐸💚🐸💚🐸💚🐸🙏

@glennbeck @AAGDhillon Glenn, please interview @PrometheanActn. They are blowing up on SM and studied the Amwrican system for decades. We need the best of the best for Midterms! ✝️🇺🇸Some members to follow as well: @sjkokinda @stegerMG @BarbaraMBoyd

The DOJ has revealed just how widespread the Biden administration's anti-Christian bias was. @AAGDhillon gives the details: “Disparaging remarks were made by former DOJ prosecutors in my department about a magistrate judge being a Catholic, keeping people of faith off of juries, and going after and seeking sentences that were more than DOUBLE for Christian protesters outside abortion clinics than for domestic terrorists going after Pro-Life centers. [Biden's] DOJ put out guidance that Christians could not possibly be the victims of religious discrimination because they are the majority. That’s ridiculous. That’s not what our Constitution says.”

@glennbeck @AAGDhillon

@robertdunlap947 Indeed, Trump is beating them at their own game. We were told. See reply for posts on Stroke and Page trip to London in Dec 2016. 😳

Does anyone else feel like we ARE LIVING THROUGH A WORLDWIDE RESET🫨! I have to tell you, I thought I was in the know, however it turns out, I DIDN’T KNOW 💩😲! Apparently London has been a pain in our a..😳 since 1776🤬! This time however we have DJT🇺🇸

don't do it. you are a valuable resource. Please try to keep it up. \

@BarbaraMBoyd @pepesgrandma This is a huge endorsment! Congratulations! 😺

He’s the hardest working campaigner by far. He’ll work as hard when he has the office as he did to win the office. We held a fundraiser for him and he did a Q&A afterwards. I was astonished by the depth of his knowledge and how quick he was. He’s the right guy for the job.

In 2024, NIH advisor David Morens was accused of deleting emails tied to COVID-era communications. Those messages reportedly involved coordination with Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance. Now the case moves forward.

@RobertKennedyJr 🤣🤣🤣🤣

In a galaxy that demands strength - America stands ready. This is the way. May the 4th be with you.

@gothburz Damn, you're good. Followed.

I am the Director of Strategic Planning at the California High-Speed Rail Authority. I have held this position for seventeen years. In that time I have written four business plans, overseen six revisions, and authored eleven methodology updates. The train has not moved. There is a hard hat on the shelf behind my desk. It was given to me at the Fresno groundbreaking ceremony in 2015. It is still in the cellophane. I use it as a bookend for the business plan binders. There are four binders. They are substantial. The hat holds them upright. In 2008, California voters approved Proposition 1A. San Francisco to Los Angeles. Two hours and forty minutes. Fifty-five dollars per ticket. Ninety-five million annual riders by 2030. Total cost: $33.5 billion. Fifty-three percent said yes. The current cost estimate is $231 billion. I am sometimes asked to provide context for that figure. The state housing shortage is 2.5 million units. At the California median home price, $231 billion would produce 577,000 of them. The average public school teacher in California earns $95,000. $231 billion is every one of their salaries for eight years. The state has a documented wildfire suppression staffing gap. $231 billion would fund 6,400 additional fire crews for a century. I include these comparisons for context. They are not relevant to my work. We have built 119 miles of infrastructure. Columns. Viaducts. Grade separations. You can see them from Highway 99 between Madera and Bakersfield. They stand in rows across land that used to grow things. No track runs on them. No train has touched them. Some of them have graffiti now. I have seen the photographs in the quarterly progress reports. I have not visited. There was an almond grower outside Hanford. She is in our files as Parcel 417, Hanford East. The Authority acquired twelve acres of her property through eminent domain in 2016 for right-of-way clearance. The trees were removed. The soil was graded flat. The right-of-way has been clear for nine years. Nothing has been built on Parcel 417. Her file notes that she attended three public comment hearings between 2014 and 2016. I do not know what she said at those hearings. I know what we said. We called the acquisition "a critical milestone in the project's advancement." I wrote those words for the 2016 Annual Report. They were well-received. Her contact information has been flagged in the Phase 2 preliminary assessment, in case additional right-of-way is required. Phase 2 does not yet exist. Her contact information does. The original completion date was 2020. The current target is 2032. The route has been revised from San Francisco-to-Los Angeles to Merced-to-Bakersfield. One hundred seventy-one miles. I refer to this as Phase 1. The French national rail company, SNCF, joined the project as a consulting partner in 2010. They left in 2011. They used the phrase "political dysfunction," which is diplomatic language for a country that built the Eiffel Tower in two years telling you it cannot build your train. SNCF then went to Morocco and built a high-speed rail line from Tangier to Casablanca. Two hundred miles. Operational by 2018. Seven years. We are in year eighteen. I included the SNCF departure in the 2022 business plan as a "comparative international case study." The lesson I drew was that Morocco has simpler permitting requirements. This is accurate. I did not draw other lessons. The $9.95 billion bond that voters approved costs the state $647 million per year for thirty years. Roughly $20 billion in total repayment. The bond is being serviced on schedule. $647 million leaves the state treasury every year and arrives in accounts associated with a train that does not carry passengers. It has done this since 2010. The bond repayment is the most functional transit system we have built. It moves $647 million a year. On time. Every time. In 2019, Governor Newsom said the project "would cost too much and, respectfully, take too long." He then continued funding it. I appreciated the word "respectfully." It acknowledged the problem without producing an obligation to solve it. My team delivered the 2020 business plan revision the following quarter. It was well-received. The Governor also supported legislation to shield certain cost details from public disclosure. That same year, thousands of pages were removed from the Authority's website. I was not involved in that decision. I was involved in the pages. Last Friday, a television host told the Governor on camera that the project now costs $231 billion. The Governor said, "No, it's not. It's not." The $231 billion figure is from the 2026 draft business plan. Page 47. I wrote page 47. The Governor then said we had gotten the project "back on track." I noted the phrasing. A rail project that has not yet laid operational track is not, in a strict sense, on one. I did not raise this. The ridership projection has been revised from 95 million annual riders by 2030 to 36 million by 2060. I updated that figure personally during the 2024 planning cycle. The ticket price has been revised from $55 to $105. Both figures describe a service that does not yet exist. The State Auditor published a report. The title is: "Flawed Decision Making and Poor Contract Management Have Contributed to Billions in Cost Overruns and Delays in the System's Construction." That is twenty words. We have 119 miles of columns that carry nothing. I read the report carefully. It was thorough. We incorporated its findings into the next business plan revision. The board was scheduled to vote on the latest business plan on April 29th. The vote was delayed. Additional review was requested. I support additional review. My pension vests in 2034. The project's current completion target is 2032. If the train is finished on schedule, my position becomes unnecessary two years before my pension matures. The completion date is determined by the business plan. I write the business plan. The plan says the project should continue. It has always said this. I have never written one that recommended otherwise.

The Platner tattoo story isn’t about Platner. It's about the people who spent years calling everyone on the Right a Nazi for the slightest association, only to line up like rank-and-file partisans behind a Democratic Senate candidate who wore a literal SS Totenkopf tattoo for 18 years. It's a story about how years and years of moral indignation from the Very Serious People™ class proved to be a paper-thin veneer over your team jerseys.

@grushkay @alexolegimas Of course, you're all acedemics with zero clues on how to actually build anything, and that includes the wheel. 🤣🤣🤣

I thought this opinion piece was an excellent read. And of course, loved all the references to leading academics in the field.

"Earnings are stable" yet inflation continues, albiet at a lower rate that last year. How the hell do you think this is a positive? I believe we are working towards a positive economy, but right now the situation is strangling the American family. That's what's happening in the real world, fool.

"For one thing, the macrodata isn’t matching the anecdata: The unemployment rate was 4.3 percent in March 2026; in March of 2020, it was 4.4 percent. Average hourly earnings are stable. Claude Code is a marvel, yet demand for software engineers is booming. Maybe mass layoffs are coming. But maybe not." "The more automation there is, the more people value a human’s touch. Take coffee. It was once laborious to make espresso at home. Now, Nespresso machines are everywhere. Has that led to Starbucks closing and neighborhood coffee spots dropping their prices? Of course not. There are more baristas than ever. There are more coffee shops than ever. Coffee as a commodity led to more demand for coffee as an experience. “The fact that the good is scarce is exactly what gives it meaning,” Imas writes."

@sarthakgh @pmarca Also, the unemployment rate is not 4.3%. New jobless claims fell to 4.3%. Big difference.

I want nothing to do with "the relational sector". Full stop. You get a "C" for effort in trying to convince humans to cater to the rich self centered narcissists of the world. You must be proud being able to document mans' advancments and his creativity. I bet you felt all warm and fuzzy after writing this. 🤣 No clue who you are, but at the very least, you are an imperialist in thought, whether you know it or not. I will not follow your type into the gulag. If you only knew how ridiculous you sound. Might I suggest you find God? ✝️🙏

Folks, due to lack of appreciation of my work, I’m leaving. I’ll check back in a half a year or so. Love you all, but at midnight, I turn into a pumpkin. Sorry about all the promised goodies. The best was yet to come. But there’s no need. My maximum impressions have yet to surpass 9,000 without help. I need to be able to do this on my own, and I can’t.