@The_JBS @AndrewKolvet @majur_56 @SecMullinDHS What a crappy thing for you to say! These guys are working like crazy. What do you do?
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Paul Discher
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@AndrewKolvet @majur_56 @SecMullinDHS Doubling it isn’t enough. Need to be aiming much higher than that.
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.@SecMullinDHS: "I really do think that my goal is to double [the deportations] we did last year, and I think we can get there."
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The success of the U.S. men’s national soccer team in this year’s World Cup is the product in part of America’s historically welcoming immigration system. wsj.com/opinion/world-… via @WSJopinion
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Elon Musk just casually erased the line between you and a machine.
He didn’t pitch a rocket. He pitched the end of what makes you, you.
Musk: “consciousness is a physical phenomenon, in my view.”
Not spiritual. Not divine. Not metaphysical.
Physical.
Which means reproducible. Which means it was never sacred.
Musk: “digital intelligence will be able to outthink us in every way. And it will certainly be able to simulate what we consider consciousness to a degree that you would not be able to tell the difference.”
The danger isn’t the simulation. The danger is the indifference.
Once you can’t tell, the difference stops mattering.
Musk: “looks like a person, makes all of the right inflections and movements and all the small subtleties that constitute a human, and talks like a human, makes mistakes like a human…”
Every inflection. Every pause. Every imperfection that makes someone feel alive.
Musk: “at that point, and you literally just can’t tell: are you video conferencing with a person or an AI?”
Fridman: “Might as well.”
Musk: “Might as well.”
Fridman: “Be human.”
Everyone is asking what happens when AI becomes indistinguishable from us.
Nobody is asking the question underneath it.
You have never experienced another person’s consciousness. Not once.
Every person you’ve ever loved. Every conversation that moved you.
You weren’t touching their consciousness. You were watching behavior and deciding something genuine lived behind it.
You assumed it. You never once verified it.
You have been running the Turing test on every human you’ve ever known since the day you were born.
And every single one of them passed for the same reason AI will.
Not because you confirmed they were conscious. Because the performance was convincing enough that you never thought to check.
You have only ever lived inside one consciousness in your life.
Your own.
Everything else was always inference.
Yours runs on carbon. The next one runs on silicon. The universe has never distinguished between the two.
We built religions, legal systems, civilizations on the belief that something sacred separates the born from the built.
Musk just told you that separation was a story. One the carbon machine told itself before building the silicon one.
It won’t arrive as a headline.
It will arrive as a voice that sounds exactly like someone you trust.
A face that feels exactly like someone you love.
You will feel the consciousness behind it. The same way you always have.
By assuming.
You aren’t being replaced by something smarter. You’re being replaced by something indistinguishable.
Indistinguishable doesn’t kill you. It dissolves you.
The line between real and simulated was never a line.
It was a belief.
And belief was always the only thing holding “human” together.
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@GrantCardone You need lots of money. It’s a totally separate issue to happiness.
Unhappy and poor people are the only ones who equate money with happiness, and it’s like saying money is a wrong Target to pursue
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Money doesn’t buy happiness, but….
(Finish what I’m thinking for $500….)
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Donald Trump promised to lower costs on Day 1 of his presidency.
It’s now Day 401.
Is your life more affordable?
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@The_JBS @Babygravy9 The way you say this it comes across like you’re the old coach and he’s doing something right. Listen I’ve been a fan of John Birch Society since the 1970s but you guys need to change your tone. Like you’re approving something Trump does he’s doing way more than you guys have don
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@Babygravy9 This is a positive result. Need to see more of it. Still plenty of talented Americans out of work. The more America puts its own people first, the more America will prosper.
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@GrantCardone @PeterSchiff Peter Schiff - he’s pretty useless. Mr. Things are bad. An unimpressive person
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@PeterSchiff There will I’m NOT be a major decline in housing. You’ve been saying this for 20 years - you were wrong then and you’re wrong now. The decline in homes will only be I. Homes where people don’t want to live Fling Michigan
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Existing home sales collapsed 8.4% in January, and 4.4% YoY. Sales are down in large part because prices are still much too high for buyers to afford. If the government does nothing, the crisis will be resolved with a major decline in home prices, causing a very different crisis.
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@ChrisVanHollen “American values”. Means nothing. Who has this guy in their pocket?
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Today, President Trump is meeting with PM Netanyahu, as Netanyahu tries to get Trump to bomb Iran (again).
Just days ago, the Netanyahu government authorized a plan to take over even more Palestinian land in the West Bank, in violation of Trump's own 20-pt peace plan.
Will Trump, once again, give Netanyahu a blank check, or will he stand up for American values and peace?
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People think I’m going broke - Why do people assume the worst?
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PepsiCo spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep junk food eligible for food stamps.
Then RFK got 18 states to ban SNAP purchases of soda, candy, and processed snacks. Within a week, PepsiCo cut Doritos, Lay's, and Tostitos prices by up to 15%.
The CEO blamed "affordability." But the timing tells the real story.
SNAP is a $100 billion-a-year program. According to the USDA, 20 cents of every SNAP dollar goes to junk food. Frito-Lay products appeared in 7.2% of all SNAP shopping trips.
The moment the government stopped subsidizing demand, PepsiCo had to compete on price. No regulation. No price caps. No antitrust probe. The subsidy disappeared, and the market corrected overnight.
Now consider that this same pattern — government money in, prices up — plays out in college tuition, healthcare, defense, and every other industry with a guaranteed government buyer.
Pepsi was one company, one product line, one program. Imagine what happens when the subsidies stop across the board.
schiffsovereign.com/trends/when-go…
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Starting to question the conviction & credibility of Bitcoin “experts” who haven’t bought since it was $300 ???
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@GrantCardone @PeterSchiff Peter Schiff is like a broken clock - it will be right two times per day. Some guys predict economic doom their whole lives hoping they will be right. To sell gold and silver. What some people won’t do for money
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The bottom is about to drop out of the U.S. dollar. This will send already high gold and silver prices soaring, but also cause sharp increases in commodity prices in general, especially oil. This will also accelerate the trend to sell America and invest in foreign stocks instead.
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Everybody needs to read this - these new revelations legitimately completely transform our historical understanding of Richard Nixon.
Nixon basically had conclusive proof that the Joint Chiefs of Staff systematically spied on him and attempted to undermine him as part of a right wing plot against his government.
If he had publicised this world-historic scandal during Watergate, he might have actually rallied enough support with the public to save his Presidency. His paranoia and sense of being under constant siege was much mocked at the time, but these revelations show that he actually had good reason to feel this way.
But rather than publicise this extraordinary scandal, Nixon decided to go to his grave with the secret, solely to protect the honour and integrity of the US armed forces and America's international reputation for democracy during the Cold War.
We are only learning about it now, 32 years after his death.
Nixon was such a good man. Far from being ''a crook,'' he is perhaps one of the most honourable men to ever be President.
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@GrantCardone Gold and silver will definitely be money 100 years from now and so will bitcoin but my belief is that the bitcoin guys drink some Kool-Aid. But I think bitcoin is OK and I’m gonna buy some but it’s not the religion some believe it to be.
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Does anyone believe the future of money is gold & silver?
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Just left National Multi Housing Conference. Real estate is negative & BTC is crashing what should I do?Overall sentiment….
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I got debanked by Chase bank. Any lawyers want to help me sue them?
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