Skeptical Optimist

A great article from one of my favorite writers.

@RichardGrenell Is it supposed to be on the ballot I just got?

Carl Demaio deserves enormous credit for getting the voter ID initiative on the California ballot. He was relentless. He was focused for a very long time. We all must now support this initiative to pass voter ID in America’s largest state. This is an incredible moment for not just California, but for America. We need national money for this initiative. Changing California changes Washington, DC.

@StanleyRoberts Why was tom commie steyer the first choice on mine?

Just received my official California election ballot 👀. Holy Bat Votes Robin!

@carldemaio @JessCAGrl4Life5 Very useful. Grok telling me the most conservative candidate helped for the judges.

My best advice for CA Republican voters: VOTE EARLY... And use the Reform California Voter Guide (link below)

@WallStreetApes Just got my mail in ballot. Gonna feel good filling this one out.

Los Angeles Mayor candidate Spencer Pratt says he’s going to win the race for Mayor Spencer says he’s been preparing for his debate with Mayor Karen Bass by having his 8 year old son stand on a trash can and pretend to be Karen Bass “In LA If you have 51% on June 2nd, you win outright. So I believe there's enough people just in the valley alone that I will win” California has to vote for Spencer Pratt. The city cannot take more Democrat leadership. The place is a literal disgusting dump with graffiti and trash EVERYWHERE

@MegaBasedChad The energy was unreal.

Question for Uncs who were there when it happened How did the turn of the millennium feel? What was it like?

@KeenanPeachy This guy is awesome

!!!! This is the single best piece of political persuasion ever made about California. AMERICA LOVES SPENCER PRATT! Must watch:

@RasmusJarlov @GeorgieMySon75 @EricLDaugh This is such a scary lineup

@GeorgieMySon75 @Skepticaloptmst @EricLDaugh Yes, we do. We will be fine. The UK is not abandoning us. Neither is Canada, Germany, Poland or any other NATO country. Only the megalomaniacs.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump is now WITHDRAWING 5,000 US troops out of Germany after Chancellor Merz said we got "humiliated" by Iran and FAILED to support America — CBS FAFO! 🔥 Trump nailed it in the Oval Office on pulling out from European nations who didn't support America: "Why SHOULDN'T I?" "Italy hasn't been any help...Spain has been HORRIBLE." "When we needed them, they WERE NOT THERE." It goes beyond Germany too. Trump could pull out EVEN MORE

@TheeDarkCircle @SDSLLC_USA That’s how you get special forces. Crazy MFers. 🇺🇸

6% Americans believe they can defeat a bear barehanded

@Hotshot_Movie They’ll still vote D unfortunately

Wow. The LA registrar is blocking Palisades Fire victims from voting for Spencer Pratt. Many are sheltered in rentals outside of LA City, and they’re being sent ballots without the option of voting for LA Mayor, despite retaining their Palisades lot as their primary residence.

@jpgflippa @danielgothits That’s actually not true

@danielgothits A true modern day dystopian nightmare. Can’t even drink the tap water safely

I left LA and my cortisol levels are down like 99% and I’m happier than I’ve been in years lol Seriously apart from my friends I can’t think of a single positive thing about that place Just the most demonic crime-ridden sprawling soulless city of all time

@PatPorterLA5 @0hour1 I’ll follow you bro

@0hour1 Apparently it’s me! I can’t get anyone to follow.

Name the biggest asshole on X?

@gayleviv The name is essential.

Black Betty 2.0 is home. We're not only tax payers now, but also contributing to the economy by financing a vehicle. Paying a higher interest rate because of having no credit score yet, but it's still a LOT less than the Ubering has been costing us. Praying she's a good car.

@ralfwk @Requiem4Dreams @FalkTG You use memes and articles because you don’t have a brain.

@Requiem4Dreams @Skepticaloptmst @FalkTG Says the one with no brain cells left.

A sad day for Germany 🇩🇪. 5.000 US 🇺🇸 troops will leave my country. They defended us for 7 decades and they never misused their power (unlike the Soviets). They acted disciplined and friendly. They taught us a lot. The U.S. is like a big brother for Germany. But the U.S. administration is right: Germany can stand on its own feed nowadays. The U.S. needs its resources to deter China 🇨🇳. And one day, when we Europeans are strong enough we will do so as well. Thank you American soldiers for your service for liberty and peace in Europe. 🇩🇪 🇺🇸🇪🇺

@0hour1 Good morning patriot. 🇺🇸

Not if you have a community. My followers all say good morning been that way for years.

These ads for @spencerpratt for Mayor of Los Angeles are game changers. Inspiring!

@ralfwk @FalkTG Germans calling us fascists. Rich.

@FalkTG German here, only the US needs those bases to support their global warmongering. If they leave, especially since they turned fascist now, they can happily do so.

@PieterVand37940 May I suggest using Kiva.org? You can pay back interest free. I’ve been on it for years and it’s a good site.

🚨 Correction if I may, this GiveSendGo is not mine. It belongs to everyone who made a donation or a prayer for us South African refugees who I proudly call Amerikaners. You all are Directors investing into people's lives, you have a right to see where your money is spent.

@CorpBarnaby @kea55500 This is such a bad ass page. Time to start the day!

🇺🇸 Most Badass Americans You Don’t Know: #3 Simon Kenton Simon Kenton is an American Badass He was a 6-foot-2 giant of the frontier who survived being burned at the stake, running the gauntlet nine different times, and unimaginable torture at the hands of the Shawnee. He also saved Daniel Boone’s life. At just 16 years old back in Virginia, Kenton got into a brutal fistfight over a girl. Believing he had killed the other man, he fled west, changed his name to Simon Butler to avoid the law, and never looked back. He became one of the greatest scouts and long hunters in American history. He explored deep into hostile Shawnee territory when few white men dared go there. He claimed over a million acres of land. He fought in countless skirmishes, tracked war parties, and saved settler families again and again. The Shawnee captured him repeatedly. They forced him to run the gauntlet nine different times — a brutal quarter-mile corridor of Indians armed with clubs, sticks, and tomahawks. They sentenced him to death and tied him to a burning stake, only to be saved at the last minute by his friend, Simon Girty, who was a British man living among the Shawnee. They dragged him behind horses in a “Mazeppa ride” through brush and trees that would break most men. Each time he survived — and each time he went right back to fighting. In 1775 he joined the Kentucky militia. In April 1777, during a fierce Shawnee attack on Fort Boonesborough, Daniel Boone was shot in the leg and knocked to the ground. A warrior stood over him, ready to scalp him alive. Simon Kenton charged straight through the chaos, shot the attacker dead, clubbed another warrior who rushed in, then lifted the wounded Boone in his strong arms and carried him safely back inside the fort under heavy fire. Boone later looked at the young Kenton and told him, “Well, Simon, you have behaved like a man today — indeed you are a fine fellow.” In September 1778, while on a spying mission near Chillicothe, Ohio, Kenton was captured again by the Shawnee. He was tortured, forced to run the gauntlet multiple times, and condemned to death. Yet the Shawnee were so impressed by his unbreakable endurance that a widow whose son had been killed adopted him into the tribe. She cared for him for about 20 days until his wounds were healed. They gave him the name Cut-ta-ho-tha, which means “the condemned man.” They then moved him to Upper Sandusky for what was planned as a larger, more public execution at the stake. He had another narrow escape from death at the stake thanks to a dramatic rainstorm and further pleading by Pierre Drouillard (a French-Canadian trader and British Indian Department agent). Drouillard ransomed Kenton with trade goods. He was now a British prisoner of war and sent to Detroit around early November 1778. He escaped, traveling mostly by night through hostile territory for about 30 days facing hunger and near-capture, and reached safety in Kentucky by summer 1779. He next served as a scout under George Rogers Clark in the daring Illinois Campaign. He fought in attacks on Shawnee towns like Chillicothe and Pickaway, repeatedly risking his life spying behind enemy lines. In 1782, he learned the man he thought he killed at age 16 was still alive. He went back to his true name. When the War of 1812 broke out, the 58-year-old Kenton was appointed Brigadier General of the Ohio militia under the command of future President Major General William Henry Harrison. He led militia forces at the Battle of the Thames in Canada in 1813 — the battle in which the great Shawnee chief Tecumseh was killed. When American soldiers wanted to mutilate Tecumseh’s body for souvenirs, Kenton was asked to identify it. Knowing what they planned, he deliberately pointed to another fallen warrior instead, allowing Tecumseh to be buried with honor. He lived to the age of 81 and died in 1836. Simon Kenton is an American Legend 🇺🇸

@matterasmachine @butterblum3 @MarcoKojima @RasmusJarlov @EricLDaugh Yeah totally makes sense. As someone who pays more in taxes than most people earn in a year I’d beg to differ. Ha ha redneck.

@Skepticaloptmst @butterblum3 @MarcoKojima @RasmusJarlov @EricLDaugh “We..” you will lose power in half a year, redneck. You have nothing tho do with “we”

Yeah but it’s a question about how much did you earn. You’re given $2,000 say. And you don’t have the liquidity coming from outside. So reality is you lost money then you made money. You earned $200 on your trades. This is a cow. You aren’t buying shares. It’s a cow. If you aren’t given extra cash then you don’t make $600. You actually take an L the second time you buy it for more than you sold it for

@Skepticaloptmst @grok @WealthEdge0828 @AntonGeorg2 @MercuriusFilius This is blackrock. You started with several billion in the account. The trades are seperate.

How would you answer this common BlackRock interview question?