Brian

Green Lights in the Hawaiian Sky It's The Comet

@elonmusk It won't be wealth that we have to really be worried about...it's mindset and mental health and a search for real meaning in life if there is not some sort of growth. @elonmusk you say population loss is the #1 fear...well what happens when men are all cucks?

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI. AI/robotics will produce goods & services far in excess of the increase in the money supply, so there will not be inflation.

@SenWarren Well, PG&E should give money back to the people who HAVE to use them for power! Not tax them cuz you suck at spending OUR money!

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than: Tesla Southwest Disney Live Nation HP United PayPal CVS Health Palantir Citigroup PG&E 3M That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax. It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

Exactly

@Dean_Bean1 @Timcast Icons can make stupid remarks as well...so that puts him in the same icon class as Biden at this point...lol

@Timcast I'm starting to think that these "influencers" think they have more "influence" than they actually do. In 20 years the likes of Tim Pool and Tucker Carlson and others will be a inconsequential byline in the Trump story. Trump is already solidified as a legendary American icon.

THAT DOES IT I AM DONE THIS WAS THE LAST STRAW I'M SO ANGRY

@SenWarren And you would be hurting everyone who has Amazon stock as he would be forced to sell his shares! Maybe you should cut your fraud projects and leave people alone! You economic illiterate Pocahontas

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@BobMurphyEcon @dbongino I thought the exact same thing Bob!

@dbongino "I’m horrified I once believed this guy was authentic." ^^ You're doing this to be funny at this point, right?

I’m frequently disappointed in politicians but Tom Massie defied the odds in my unfortunate experiences with him, as he surpassed my lowest expectations. This zero pretends to be a principled defender of liberty but, in the real world, he supports third-world tyranny. Here are the receipts from a phone call I had with this zero offering him a briefing on multiple investigations he was inserting himself into by publicly commenting on them. Rather than affording the subjects of the cases their constitutional Right to due process, Massie chose to waive off the briefing and litigate it on X for clicks. Notice I tried to call him back but he wasn’t interested in facts. It’s also of note that I never heard a single word from Massie during the process we engaged in to release the Epstein case docs. This process played out in media everywhere and yet Massie never reached out. Not once. It’s almost as if he wants to be a moron. As if ignorance is bliss for him. I’m horrified I once believed this guy was authentic.

@dbongino Ironic....I'm horrified that I once thought of you as authentic as well

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@_10delta_ @TomBilyeu have you seen this? Interesting

3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February. Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance. The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible. 1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork. The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40. Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe's LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT. Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD. 2nd was Syria. The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China's Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed. This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next. 3rd was Venezuela. In January the US effectively took control of the world's largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily. The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone. Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to.. 4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock. Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy's own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled. The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States. If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil. This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They're now locked into the US energy system. The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency. The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves. But the US grand strategy goes deeper.. Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths. By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China's ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale. The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas. On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls.. Iran was the Belt & Road's overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy. Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran's production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal. Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass. Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years. Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost. Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first. The US is seizing all 3.

@BretWeinstein All valid points, but it also doesn't mean there will NOT be new types of jobs created. Eventually, like most things division will arise, and people will want to deal with people again

Many argue AI is like prior tech revolutions--that the jobs destroyed will be replaced by jobs we can't yet imagine They're wrong. AI+robots will be better at the newly created jobs too. It's is a super-competitor, with the advantages of a generalist AND almost every specialist

@ggreenwald @grok is this video recent? It looks like it was really from some time ago

A huge crowd of Iranians assembles in Revolution Square in Tehran to express gratitude and love for Israel and the US, heralding them as liberators. Oh, it's actually to commemorate the new Iranian leader and condemn attacks by two foreign states:

@rahmstorf I'm sure you'll be talking about that big ball of energy that we call the Sun a lot right? Like, the Majority of the time right? It only provides the most energy to Earth, but doesn't effect the climate, right?

Around 6,000 ocean scientists are meeting in Glasgow at the AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, discussing how fossil-fuel-caused climate change is affecting sea levels, ocean currents and life in our oceans. #OSM26

@mgd4177 @RepThomasMassie Exactly! All those agencies should lose all authority immediately and be relegated to the gutter, and CONGRESS should start doing their damned job! In fact, END the FED, if Congress the legislative body is the power of the purse, it should not pass onto another fake made up cabal

@RepThomasMassie And then he can explain how unelected bureaucrats in the Executive, trans, EPA, HHS, DOL, DOA, DOE, DOC, ENVIRONMENT - can impose regulations on citizens, which costs money, but the president can’t charge foreign countries.

Some have asked me to comment on the SCOTUS ruling striking down tariffs based on emergencies declared by the Executive. Why should I comment when Gorsuch has already nailed it right here? 💯

@indyfor45th47th WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY MORE THAN TRUMP

DO YOU TRUST THOMAS MASSIE?

@FFT1776 You're a boot licker with this stupid take. Massie is one of a handful who do what's right

We have no choice. Massie has to go. His TDS is a problem for this administration. Get him out of the way

🚨A political storm is building in Kentucky and Massie is directly in its path! One of Massie’s biggest problems is his severe TDS has interfered with getting the job done. 🔥Pres Trump endorses Navy SEAL Captain @EdGallrein to unseat TDS Thomas Massie. Good luck Captain Ed Gallrein! Primary day could bring a major shake-up!

@MarioNawfal Go sign up for health insurance regardless of citizenship, you get registered to vote

🇺🇸 California Sheriff: Non-Residents Can Vote. He said the system relies on an “honor code” online, letting anyone sign up with just a click and get mailed a vote. How is it honorable to vote in a country you don’t even live in?

@danielsgoldman @grok list all the places that require an id to purchase items, even constitutionally protected rights.

Do you have a passport? Do you know where your birth certificate is? If the answer to both is no, then you cannot vote under the SAVE Act. The SAVE Act is NOT a voter ID bill. It’s a voter suppression bill.