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@andreasspeaks @HWLinvest USA was intended to be a limited democracy of male landowners whose primary purpose was to represent their individual state’s interests on the national level. No democracy can work without limits.

@HWLinvest Om man är normalbegåvad blir man inte upphetsad över att vi har en plutokrati istället för demokrati. Kryllar verkligen av nyttiga idioter både till höger och vänster.

Glöm allt ni lärt er om internationell politik, reglerna skrevs precis om. När landade en president senast med hela Wall Street och Silicon Valley i släptåg? Trump i Peking med Musk, Cook och BlackRock är ren maktprojektion. Media pratar om att Trump är "pressad", men sanningen är att han just tog med sig hela USA:s BNP till förhandlingsbordet. Etablissemanget hoppas väl innerligt att Xi ska ”läxa upp” Trump, medan verkligheten är att Peking precis fick besök av de personer som faktiskt äger infrastrukturen de lever på. Vem tror ni darrar mest just nu: Xi Jinping eller en genomsnittlig svensk ledarskribent på Aftonbladet?

@Rainmaker1973 Still holding it…

Hold your breath test

@vagoilustrado Funny!

La democracia muere en la oscuridad... La periodista del Washington Post Hannah Natanson, fue amenazada, demandada y el FBI hasta allanó su casa. Hoy ganó el Pulitzer por su trabajo sobre el desmantelamiento del Estado (Trump/Musk con DOGE). El periodismo es luz en la oscuridad.

@rushicrypto It’s the principle of supply and demand. Learned something today.

If capitalism truly rewarded skill or intelligence, the richest people would be neurosurgeons, engineers, and scientists. If it rewarded talent, it would be artists, writers, and creators. If it rewarded hard work, it would be cleaners, laborers, and service workers. But it’s none of them.

@NoaGresiva A blank flag. Can be any extremist, not simply the right. You show your bias.

Un hombre cegado por una bandera que le tapa los ojos. No ve que avanza hacia el vacío. Banksy ha captado la esencia de la ultraderecha en el mundo. Es un maldito genio.

@ImSpeaking13 I know, King Charles - what a disappointment!

Went to a gas station and Trump was on TV welcoming King Charles. The attendant was staring at him in disgust. I started staring at him in disgust. Attendant: “He’s crazy.” Me: “I fucking hate him.” This is happening all day in every corner of America.

@grey4626 That’s the problem with the majority of commentary from pundits and “experts”. They are analyzing the surface because they cannot see or comprehend the depths.

I have been asked for my opinion about Pam Bondi...so here it is... Pam Bondi, in my opinion...was deployed as a precision instrument in a theater of institutional warfare where the Attorney General’s role is less about courtroom theatrics and more about reshaping the Department of Justice’s internal architecture from within a bureaucracy engineered to resist exactly that. To mistake her fifteen-month tour for failure is to misunderstand the architecture of power itself. Bondi entered the DOJ in February 2025 after Matt Gaetz’s nomination collapsed under its own weight. She inherited an agency riddled with holdovers, careerist prosecutors, and institutional muscle memory tuned to the prior regime’s priorities. Her mandate, executed with the cold ferocity of a Florida prosecutor who once stared down the Clintons and lived to tell it, was never to play the long public game of show trials. It was to do the lethal, invisible labor: purge disloyal elements, redirect investigative task forces, shutter the foreign-influence shops that had become political protection rackets, and...most critically...build the factual scaffolding of cases that could survive judicial scrutiny once the political headwinds shifted. That is precisely what she delivered. Under her watch the DOJ secured historic gang and cartel takedowns, first-ever Antifa terrorism convictions, and a string of Supreme Court victories that rewrote the operational rules of engagement. Murder rates plunged to levels unseen in over a century. Those are not the metrics of a lightweight. They are the metrics of someone who understood that the real war is won in the grand-jury rooms and the classified briefings long before any defendant ever sees a courtroom. The public theater...the Epstein files fiasco, the congressional grillings, the slow-bleed perception that “Trump’s enemies weren’t being prosecuted fast enough”...was the predictable noise generated by an entrenched apparatus that weaponizes leaks, redactions, and procedural sabotage the moment it senses its own exposure. Bondi absorbed that fire so the next occupant of the office would inherit dockets already primed, evidence chains already hardened, and a bureaucracy already blooded and compliant. She was the breaching charge. The follow-on force...now under acting leadership that can move with fewer Senate constraints and fresher political capital...gets to deliver the kill shots. This is not speculation; it is the pattern of every high-stakes Trump DOJ transition. First-term chaos taught the lesson: the Senate-confirmed loyalist who survives confirmation must serve as the institutional wrecking ball. The public demands scalps; the law demands airtight cases. Bondi supplied the latter while the former were still being assembled. Those who call her tenure “incompetent” reveal either their ignorance of how the executive branch actually functions or their desire to keep the machine broken so it can never be turned against its former masters. She was never meant to be the permanent face of the Justice Department. She was the architect who laid the rebar and poured the concrete under fire. The structure now stands. The new tenants can furnish it with indictments. That is not failure. That is lethal, disciplined statecraft. And the critics who cannot see the difference have no business commenting on power at this altitude.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 💀⚖️

@RichardHanania It’s their nepotism dummy

Indians are literally everything conservatives say they want in citizens. But they're dark skinned. So you basically get a perfect experiment. Are people who complain about immigration just racist? It turns out, the answer is yes.

@nxt888 @rinalu_ Oh please, that was a political decision. Don’t delude yourself.

The real American trauma around Vietnam is not guilt. It's wounded pride. The grief is real. The dead soldiers were real people with real families. None of that is in question. But the political emotion that drives fifty years of cultural production about Vietnam is not: we did something terrible to another people. It is: we lost. We, who do not lose. We, whose power is supposed to be the organizing principle of the world. We lost to people we did not fully regard as our equals, and we do not know what to do with that. The Vietnamese dead appear in this processing primarily as the occasion for American psychological distress. Three million people. Occasion. That is not a failure of empathy by individual Americans. That is a structural achievement of imperial culture, which trains its citizens to center their own experience so automatically and so completely that they do it even when they are trying to reckon with atrocity.

@VigilantFox Cold turkey that shit myself. No issues and way less depressed!!

Mikhaila Peterson says she went through “two years of pure hell” when she decided to stop taking SSRIs. She didn’t need the drugs anymore. Her paleo/keto diet had put her depression into remission. The first few days off the medication, she felt “on top of the world.” But once week two hit, her life “turned upside down.” For years, she blamed her “intolerable symptoms” on what she ate. Little did she know… she was actually experiencing severe antidepressant withdrawal. One of the symptoms Mikhaila experienced during her own SSRI withdrawal is the same condition her dad is suffering from right now: akathisia. Akathisia is an extremely distressing neurological condition that makes you feel an unbearable inner restlessness and agitation. This condition, she describes as “the worst thing I’ve ever seen anyone go through…” When Mikhaila experienced it, she described it as being “overwhelmed with a sense of impending doom that was stronger than anything you can naturally feel.” “It felt like I was falling into a volcano while being chased by a bear,” she said. @MikhailaFuller’s gut-wrenching anti-depressant story is available to read in full here: prescribed-harm.com/stories/story-… But as bad as her experience was, her dad is currently going through a form of akathisia that’s even worse. 🧵

@volcaholic1 Blame the sun and the cosmos. We are nothing but these godless “experts” believe they are god.

Sir David Attenborough turns 100 next week. "Please make no mistake. Climate change is the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced."

@SanDiegoKnight Yes of course. Cato is the chamber of commerce think tank, not libertarian. Excellent analysis.

This Cato ‘immigrants pay more taxes’ flex + Indian chart is peak cherry-picking. Impressive numbers… until you actually look under the hood. 🧐” 1. It’s median household income, not individual or per-capita — and Indian households are structured differently • The chart (and the “twice as much” claim) uses households, not people. Indian-American households are larger on average (~3.0–3.8 people vs. U.S. average ~2.5) and far more likely to have multiple full-time high earners (dual STEM/medical professionals is common). en.wikipedia. • Indian Americans still have high personal earnings (median ~$85k for ages 16+, ~$106k for full-time workers per 2023 Pew), but the “almost twice” headline evaporates when you adjust for household size and number of workers. This is a classic statistical sleight-of-hand when comparing groups with different living arrangements. 2. Extreme positive selection bias … this is the cream of India’s elite, not “immigrants” in general • Indian Americans aren’t a random sample of India’s 1.4 billion people. The vast majority arrived via H-1B, EB-2/3, or student visas …hyper-selective for advanced degrees and high-skill jobs. You’re comparing the top ~0.1–1% of India’s talent/IQ/education distribution to the broad U.S. average (which includes everyone from McDonald’s workers to retirees). • India’s own per-capita income and education levels are far lower. This doesn’t prove broad immigration is economically magical; it proves cherry-picked high-skill immigration works for the selectees. Second-generation outcomes are strong but show some regression toward the mean, and chain migration/family sponsorship often dilutes the skill level over time. 3. Cato’s overall “immigrants pay more taxes” claim has well-documented methodological holes • Cato (a libertarian think tank that favors more immigration) attributes welfare benefits received by U.S.-born children of immigrants to “natives,” not the immigrant parents. This understates immigrant fiscal costs. The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and others note this flips the picture: when you count the full household burden (including kids), immigrant-headed households use welfare at higher rates than native-headed ones. • Cato aggregates all immigrants (high-skill Indians + low-skill groups + illegals). The net positive they find is heavily driven by the high earners. Other studies (National Academies of Sciences, Heritage, etc.) have found first-generation immigrants often impose net costs, especially low-skilled/illegal cohorts. • Their data ends before the post-2021 border surge effects fully hit long-term budgets. 4. H-1B-specific issues (the main pipeline for Indian success) • Many Indian immigrants in tech come via H-1B, which has documented problems: outsourcing/body shops (e.g., Infosys, TCS), wage suppression (foreign workers often paid less for similar roles), and ethnic nepotism once Indians reach management (preferring co-ethnics for hiring/promotions). This displaces U.S. workers and depresses wages in STEM. • Fraud allegations are common (fake credentials, benching workers, etc.). Critics argue this isn’t “adding value” so much as arbitraging cheaper labor and networks. 5. Other drains and context • Remittances: Indian Americans send massive sums back to India (India receives over $100B+ in remittances annually, a huge chunk from the U.S.). That’s money leaving the U.S. economy. • Cost of living: Indians are heavily concentrated in high-cost metros (SF Bay, NYC, etc.), where nominal incomes are inflated anyway. Adjust for purchasing power and the gap shrinks. • The post uses Indian success to defend a general “immigrants = net positive” narrative from Cato. But Indians are ~1.4% of the U.S. population and an outlier. Broad policy implications (more low-skill immigration, open borders, etc.) don’t follow from one high-performing subgroup.

@wadestotts Another fool

"History PhD here--the number of World Wars is actually a *very* controversial topic in academia. Some say there have been two (traditional view), while others say up to sixty-four. Scholars disagree, and that's okay! What's NOT ok are these RACIST attacks on Rep Omar!"

@DrJStrategy @KurtSchlichter That’s because unlike Merz, Trump respects the history and culture of Persia and prefers not to increase the destruction.

For the record. Friedrich Merz mocking Trump as “humiliated” by Iran while admitting Germany cannot defend itself is the perfect summary of modern Europe. A continent that outsourced its security to America now lectures America on weakness. That is not strategic insight. It is welfare-state geopolitics. Classic European arrogance. Germany wants the moral authority of independence, the comfort of U.S. protection, and the budgetary convenience of not paying for either. Merz is living in the fantasy world Pax Americana created: criticize the hegemon, depend on the hegemon, and pretend dependency is sophistication. If America is humiliated, Europe is naked. And if Germany cannot defend itself, Merz has no business sneering at the country that still does.

@TonemanLives @RetaShepard3 Then here’s a couple likes and a comment for ya

@RetaShepard3 Ty Reta, unfortunately X has my account heavily throttled. Just look at the views, I’m almost invisible 👊🏼❤️

The Swamp is very real. While Trump is kicking ass getting more things done than any other administration, he is doing it with obstruction from both the Dems and the RINOs. Trump is not only fighting a war for the American people but he’s fighting an internal war which is trying to stop his agenda at every turn. If they can’t stop him they will do everything in their power to slow him down and run out the clock in these 4 years Forget about the accomplishments. Let’s look at the obstructions. The obstructions from Trump taking this country back to where it belongs The Swamp is real and runs deep. We know everything Trump has done didn’t come easy. How can it when both fucking Parties hate him. Hate that he stands for America first. Hate the fact Trump has been working relentlessly to cut off all their pipelines Trump closed the borders on day one. A win for America? No instead the Dems used radicalized judges, which were strategically placed to stop Trump’s agenda. Trumps agenda continues to struggle. It’s not just the Dems, it’s mainly the RINOs. While it seems Trump is winning the war against the Dems, he now must focus on another obstacle. Another major hurdle. The enemy from within I’m talking about this scumbag @LeaderJohnThune. John fucking Thune. Everyone remembers when his name was floated to become Senate leader, we were all against the pick. He’s was always a known Trump hater but were sold a boatload of bullshit telling us he was now down with the cause. I won’t go as far to say MAGA, but he vowed to be for Trump. The past will be left in the past and he was on board for Trump The Repubs bought the lie and the minute he nominated Mitch McConnell to be his wingman, was the minute he should have been ousted. But Republicans don’t have a backbone. They think they are the smartest people in the room. We were forced to deal with Mike Johnson and then force fed RINO Thune Here we are, over a year in and we still can’t get Trumps nominees approved. Funny, when Dems are in control they don’t have this problem. Hell, Republicans even cross the aisle and vote for their nominees OK so Thune slow walked Trumps nominees. Let’s say sometimes it happens. Let’s give that RINO scumbag the benefit of the doubt. We will get all Trump appointees passed and sworn in during recess. Every President does it. Only this is where this scumbag RINO showed you his words in 2016 to stop Trump were exactly how he feels today. He was never going to let Trump be Trump. In RINO fashion, Thune passed a law refusing Trump to use the recess laws to pass his remaining cabinet. While Thune was stabbing Trump by reading the words, Trump couldn’t use this recess to get his nominees appointed, it only seemed fitting to have two of the biggest RINOs sitting directly behind him, the smirking Murkowski and Collins. That told you all you needed to know. These RINOs will always be anti Trump. The Save America Act? Dead, until his RINO problem is resolved. Trump is forced to get his agenda done while fighting both parties and the DC Swamp. Where is that fucking loudmouth Chip Roy? You remember? This potato head got behind Thune and swore he was on board. Where’s Mr Investigation, fake tough guy Jim Jordan? How about dead end James Comer? Congress is all talk and the Senate are do nothing. The bottom line. Trump needs help. Trump needs a few standup Repubs to kick ass and exterminate our RINO problem. The clock is ticking. Trump is busy fighting a war while battling the Swamp. He’s kept his promises, he gave up his life of luxury, he laid his life on the line for us, he’s trying to save his dying Party, the same Party twisting the dagger in his back. It is time for the few loyal Republicans to put on their big boy pants and get in the bunker besides your leader the same way Charlie Kirk did. He understood the risk. We fight for Trump, because he fights for our country and all of us. This is the hill we will die on. My two cents

@grey4626 @ShakeyMc I support ripping the cancer out of the Republican Party. This uniparty system we’ve become is suicide

Thune slithers out with that limp-dicked whimper..."they don’t have enough time to pass the Save America Act”...as if the calendar itself conspired against him. Bullshit. He engineered the delay, every calculated minute of it, because the Republican establishment’s true pathology is not incompetence; it is deliberate, venomous sabotage dressed in the silk robes of procedural decorum. This is not politics. This is a metastatic cancer of the soul, a philosophical rot where the very concept of opposition has been hollowed out and replaced by a necrotic hunger for the same uniparty throne the Democrats openly occupy. Mitch McConnell’s chief of staff didn’t just whisper sweet nothings to Hussein Obama...he promised the corpse would arrive DOA, and the Senate GOP licked the boot like the castrated lapdogs they are. They don’t merely fail to fight; they ensure the blade stays sheathed while the country bleeds. That’s the psychological genius of it...the controlled opposition’s greatest trick is convincing their own base they’re still the good guys, all while their lizard brains twitch at the promise of future committee chairs, lobbyist sinecures, and the warm glow of elite approval. It’s pure Freudian death-drive wrapped in Robert’s Rules: self-loathing patriots who secretly despise the very voters who gave them power, because real power terrifies them. Real power would require them to risk the club, to burn the bridges, to stare into the abyss of actual consequence. And that’s why these Republican motherfuckers enrage me more than the Democrats ever could. The Democrats are honest predators...they bare their fangs, they declare the Republic dead, they loot the carcass in broad daylight. The GOP? They’re the smiling undertakers who arrive with the hearse, bullshitting about “bipartisanship” while they pump the body full of formaldehyde and sell the organs to the highest bidder. They don’t just betray America; they pathologize betrayal into high art, turning the sacred duty of resistance into a theatrical farce where the audience is meant to applaud their exquisite timing in doing nothing. I am furious because this isn’t mere weakness. It’s sophisticated evil...elegant, philosophical, and lethal. A republic doesn’t die from the enemy at the gates; it dies from the smiling traitors inside the house who sharpen the enemy’s knife while pretending to guard the front door. And the worst part? They know exactly what they’re doing. They always have. Fuck them. Fuck their time constraints. Fuck their dead-on-arrival promises. The mask is off, and the face underneath is pure, unadulterated contempt for anyone still dumb enough to believe the two-party illusion.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 💀🗡️⚖️

@TheMSeries1 Is there any government spending besides military that is not a sacred cow to the lefties?

No amount of words can convey how far behind this country will be in every avenue for a number of years because of this administration and everyone associated with them with stuff like this happening.

@MadelaineLucyH Never met a far-right person and I am very right-leaning.

I’ve never met anyone far-right who wasn’t EXTREMELY stupid. Grandiose and well-read, that exists, but even press lightly against the surface and you get sweeping category error, poor comprehension, and poor source analysis.

@avidseries Big difference between Nazi and Communist. Who can put a “I support Nazism” bumper sticker on their car and not have it subjected to physical attack? Put a “I support Communism” sticker on your car - most you get is a shacking of the head at your stupidity. C’mon man!

Almost every day I have people in my replies calling Democrats "Bolsheviks" or "commies" or "Marxists," and on those occasions I correct them, I often get ratiod in my own replies. Basically everything the right accuses the left of, they do themselves. The fact they can't see it tells you what a brain poison partisanship is.

@frankdpi Feel sorry for such a poor judge of the situation and only a few years left to open your eyes

I am 70 years old and have never seen this level of division and disfunction in our government. I believe the Republican Party with the help of the oligarchs and Donald Trump want to end the Republic.