Kevin Burroughs
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Elon Musk just told you exactly how America loses.
Not to a better algorithm.
Not to a smarter engineer.
To itself.
Elon Musk: “When you’re dealing with the government, common sense doesn’t make sense. It’s like arguing with the DMV. It’s impossible.”
America split the atom, put men on the moon, and built the internet.
It is now losing a civilization-defining race because it cannot get out of its own way.
Not because the talent is gone.
Not because the capital dried up.
Because we built a machine that processes instead of builds.
Every decision climbs ten levels.
Every level costs a meeting.
Every meeting births a committee.
Every committee buries the idea in a report.
And somewhere in that report, the urgency dies.
This is not bureaucracy as inefficiency.
This is bureaucracy as a national security threat.
China does not debate internally.
Beijing does not convene committee reviews.
They identify the objective.
They resource it.
They execute.
While America is still scheduling the kickoff call, China is pouring concrete.
Look at what Musk built.
SpaceX landed an orbital rocket booster in eleven years.
NASA has five times the budget and cannot get astronauts home.
Tesla scaled a global manufacturing operation while legacy automakers were forming task forces to study the transition.
xAI stood up one of the most powerful supercomputers on earth in 122 days.
Not years.
Not after the third approval cycle.
122 days.
The difference is not money.
The difference is not genius.
The difference is that Musk runs his companies the way civilizations used to run themselves when they still believed impossible things were worth attempting.
Flat. Fast. Ruthless about what matters.
No ten layers of sign-off.
No thirty-person approval chain for a decision one person should make.
No process worship dressed up as due diligence.
A small group of exceptional people. A clear mission. The authority to execute without asking permission.
That model built the moon landing.
It built the transcontinental railroad.
It built every institution America now holds up as proof of what this country can do.
Then we forgot how to run it.
We replaced builders with administrators.
We replaced decisions with processes.
We replaced urgency with compliance theater.
And now we are asking that bloated machine to win the most consequential technological race in human history.
The AI war is not being fought in the code.
It is being fought in the gap between when a builder decides to move and when the institution permits it.
That gap is where civilizations end.
America does not have a talent problem.
America does not have a capital problem.
America has a bureaucracy problem.
And nobody inside that bureaucracy has a single incentive to fix it.
Musk is not fighting China.
He is fighting the version of America that forgot how to move.
The country that pours the concrete first does not just win the race.
It writes the rules everyone else spends the next century living under.
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@TodayUpdates0 It would likely end CNN NBC CBS and ABC news lol
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@seanhannity Already saw that with COVID rules. Their game hasn’t changed.
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Dan Bongino accuses Democrats of weaponizing government against Americans, saying they’re willing to make people suffer to gain political leverage:
“People often ask, why are they using the same government they claim is a benevolent force in the American people’s lives as a weapon against them? The answer? Because they want to. They seem to be enjoying this. They’re enjoying every bit of this. Keep in mind, the president has already made a number of concessions on the issue because he’s a negotiator. He’s a dealmaker, and he has to make deals. He can’t overcome a supermajority in the Senate right now, so he has to make deals. One more thing I don’t want the American people to forget about: Democrats love talking about big government and how it’s such a benevolent force in your life. But they use it to hurt you every single place they do it."
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@ksorbs The judge should go to jail if and when he commits another crime.
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@SuperScottR @ronsterd89 I remember me in this situation when I was a young new father. Then a couple with a nice new car used food stamps to get alot more groceries than I.
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I once watched a couple gain their way into a trade show for cameras without paying by convincing the ticket checker they needed to use the hotel phone just inside the door. They proceeded to walk through the show. Then they ate the $25.00 per person brunch by eating everything on their plate as they walked the buffet and put the empty plates on the nice buffet table.
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@CollinRugg CNN Headline will be: "Young man celebrating god found himself among white supremacists who savagely ended his life."
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An ROTC cadet stabbed 36-year-old Mohamed Bailor Jalloh to death after he shot an instructor at Old Dominion University.
After Jalloh shouted 'Allahu Akbar' and opened fire, students jumped on the attacker and were able to "terminate the threat."
"I don’t know how else to say it, but they basically were able to terminate the threat," Special Agent in Charge of the Norfolk FBI Field Office Dominique Evans said.
According to the New York Post, one ROTC student stabbed Jalloh to death in the classroom.
The instructor, Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, was sadly killed by the ISIS-linked gunman.
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@0xEnjooyer I used to get some benefit from it. Now I get extreme cramping at night and can no longer take it.
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@MichelleMaxwell Some of the same companies will also offer veteran discounts that match. Age is no limit there.
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Ok my fellow Senior Friends, who doesn’t like to save some money 💵
FYI EVERYONE!!!
I heard a guy ask for his senior discount @ Wendy's, The girl at the register apologized and charged him less. When I asked the man what the discount was, he told me that seniors over age 55 ...get 10% off everything on the menu, every day. (But you need to ASK for your discount.)
This incident prompted me to do some research, and I came across a list of restaurants, supermarkets, department stores, travel deals and other types of offers giving various discounts with different age requirements. I was actually surprised to see how many there are and how some of them start as young as 50.
This list may not only be useful for you, but also friends and family, too.
Dunkin Donuts gives FREE coffee to people over 55. If you're paying for a cup every day, you might want to start getting it FREE.
YOU must ASK for your discount!
RESTAURANTS:
Applebee's: 15% off w/Golden Apple Card (60+)
Arby's: 10% off (55 +)
Ben & Jerry's: 10% off (60+)
Bennigan's: discount varies by location (60+)
Bob's Big Boy: discount varies by location (60+)
Boston Market: 10% off (65+)
Burger King: 10% off (60+)
Chick-Fil-A: 10% off or free small drink or coffee ( 55+)
Chili's: 10% off ( 55+)
CiCi's Pizza: 10% off (60+)
Denny's: 10% off, 20% off for AARP members ( 55 +)
Dunkin' Donuts: 10% off or free coffee ( 55+)
Einstein's Bagels: 10% off baker's dozen of bagels (60+)
Fuddrucker's: 10% off any senior platter (55+)
Gatti's Pizza: 10% off (60+)
Golden Corral: 10% off (60+)
Hardee's: $0.33 beverages everyday (65+)
IHOP: 10% off (55+)
Jack in the Box: up to 20% off (55+)
KFC: free small drink with any meal (55+)
Krispy Kreme: 10% off (50+)
Long John Silver's: various discounts at locations (55+)
McDonald's: discounts on coffee everyday (55+)
Mrs. Fields: 10% off at participating locations (60+)
Shoney's: 10% off
Sonic: 10% off or free beverage (60+)
Steak 'n Shake: 10% off every Monday & Tuesday ( 50+)
Subway: 10% off (60+)
Sweet Tomatoes: 10% off (62+)
Taco Bell : 5% off; free beverages for seniors (65+)
TCBY: 10% off (55+)
Tea Room Cafe: 10% off (50+)
Village Inn: 10% off (60+)
Waffle House: 10% off every Monday (60+)
Wendy's: 10% off ( 55 +)
Whataburger: 10% off (62+)
White Castle: 10% off (62+)
RETAIL & APPAREL :
Banana Republic: 30% off ( 50 +)
Bealls: 20% off first Tuesday of each month ( 50 +)
Belk's: 15% off first Tuesday of every month ( 55 +)
Big Lots: 30% off
Bon-Ton Department Stores: 15% off on senior discount days ( 55 +)
C.J. Banks: 10% off every Wednesday (50+)
Clarks : 10% off (62+)
Dress Barn: 20% off ( 55+)
Goodwill: 10% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Hallmark: 10% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Kmart: 40% off (Wednesdays only) (50+)
Kohl's: 15% off (60+)
Michael's: 10% off everyday (55+)
Modell's Sporting Goods: 30% off
Rite Aid: 10% off on Tuesdays & 10% off prescriptions
Ross Stores: 10% off every Tuesday ( 55+)
Salvation Army Thrift Stores: up to 50% off ( 55+)
Stein Mart: 20% off red dot/clearance items first Monday of every month ( 55 +)
GROCERY :
Albertson's: 10% off first Wednesday of each month ( 55 +)
American Discount Stores: 10% off every Monday ( 50 +)
Compare Foods Supermarket: 10% off every Wednesday (60+)
DeCicco Family Markets: 5% off every Wednesday (60+)
Food Lion: 60% off every Monday (60+)
Fry's Supermarket: free Fry's VIP Club Membership & 10% off every Monday (55 +)
Great Valu Food Store: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
Gristedes Supermarket: 10% off every Tuesday (60+)
Harris Teeter: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
Hy-Vee: 5% off one day a week (date varies by location)
Kroger: 10% off (date varies by location)
Morton Williams Supermarket: 5% off every Tuesday (60+)
The Plant Shed: 10% off every Tuesday (50 +)
Publix: 15% off every Wednesday (55 +)
Rogers Marketplace: 5% off every Thursday (60+)
Uncle Guiseppe's Marketplace: 15% off (62+)
You’re Welcome 😘
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@Ad1erMichael @HopliteBetrayed @beckburger701 @TooWhiteToTweet You can easily find the results. Some have already helped you out but you will not look at it or acknowledge it.
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@SnowChiefPhoton @HopliteBetrayed @beckburger701 @TooWhiteToTweet I’m sure that could be backed up by source. 😉
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Another day, another spectacularly horrific Black-on-White murder that no one hears about, that would be the number one story in the world if it were White-on-anyone-else.
On February 13, Black 21-year-old Alexander Lamar Banks was driving around, admittedly looking for people to kill, when he spotted a White mom and dad, out for an evening walk, pulling their 3-year-old daughter in a pink wagon in Delta Township, Michigan (77% White, 11% Black). That's when Banks targeted them, accelerating his car in their direction, driving off the road, and smashing through the White family.
Banks then exited the vehicle, retrieved a shotgun, and fired multiple rounds, hitting all three family members and killing 3-year-old Harlow Smith. He reloaded the weapon before approaching Harlow's dad and shooting him again at close range.
Banks punched the White father in the face and beat him with the shotgun. He then grabbed the White mother by the hair, twisting her head and trying to break her neck when she attempted to intervene.
A 72-year-old White woman named Barb Cook saw what was happening and ran toward the murder scene to try to help the family. With his gun empty, Banks smashed 72-year-old Barb repeatedly in the head with it. He hit her with such force that her hair and flesh were later recovered from the muzzle. After beating Barb, Banks dropped the gun and fled.
37-year-old dad Cameron Smith, 33-year-old mom Paige Smith, and 72-year-old Barb Cook all survived the encounter that claimed young Harlow's life. Barb Cook required brain surgery and facial reconstruction, and went into a coma (as of the most recent update, she remains in that coma).
Now, we wait to see how easy the system goes on Alexander Lamar Banks when it's inevitably determined that he was “not in the right state of mind” and has the IQ of speed bump.
To recap, a Black psychopath quite literally hunted a White family, in public, in the light of day, running them down with his vehicle before shooting them repeatedly and savagely beating them in someone's front yard, killing a 3-year-old, then bludgeoning an unrelated 72-year-old grandma into a coma, and virtually no one knows, or will ever know, that any of this happened.
But everyone on Earth knows that a White girl said a magic word on a Minnesota playground last year.

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@ick_real Put your shopping cart back. A little extra walking in your day and may prevent damage to another car.
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@HopliteBetrayed @Ad1erMichael @beckburger701 @TooWhiteToTweet What’s crazy is Hispanic, Asian, and North African people are categorized as white in a lot of cases.
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@RepJasmine @AntiBlackBarb1e How do you spend 9 million in food in one month dawg? What is going on
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While they were busy cutting SNAP and health care for working families, Pete Hegseth spent $2 million on King Crab, nearly $7 million on Lobster Tails, and nearly $100,000 on a Grand Piano in the month of September.
This is where your taxpayer dollars are going.
Isn’t this supposed to be the Administration that’s targeting “waste, fraud, and abuse”?!? Make it make sense.
Headquarters@HQNewsNow
New Pentagon budget reports show Pete Hegseth spent $93 billion in one month, making it the highest monthly expense since 2008. This budget report included spending $2 million on Alaskan King Crab.
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@dom_lucre Hope they get better grade food than I do in the Gulf War. All the boxes were stamped grade D but edible.
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🔥🚨BREAKING: Pete Hegseth's Department of War is facing backlash from liberals after reportedly buying $22 mil worth of steak and lobster near the end of the spending year.
Liberals are attempting to criticize the DOW but are disregarding the fact that our government pays for steaks and lobsters for soldiers getting ready to deploy. This media manipulation.
Our troops deserve a great meal before taking off to serve.
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@nonstabIe Depending on the commitment of time, I would. Let’s say no more than 8hrs per week.
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