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My philosophy is pretty simple. Live a life of high integrity, strive for excellence, treat people with max compassion & generosity, be trustworthy, don't react in emotion, always be postive! I find if you are true to these beliefs then its a win / win life!

I think we are so used to inept foreign policy that a masterclass does not seem real. Anyone who thinks there is no plan for Hormuz or toppling the IRGC needs to wait and watch what happens over the next month.

Hello Representative Levin, I'd like to introduce you to an organization called the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. NDI is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy, established by Congress in 1983. It is the Democratic Party's official international arm. Its board members include Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Michael McFaul. Its previous chair was Madeleine Albright, who served until her death in 2022. Also on the board: Eric Kessler, founder of Arabella Advisors, the largest dark money network in Democratic politics. NDI reported $181.5 million in revenue in fiscal year 2023, nearly all in government grants. NDI's mission, for four decades, has been to tell countries around the world how to run democratic elections. And what NDI consistently tells them, across dozens of countries, is that voter identification is a fundamental pillar of election integrity, and that proving citizenship is a basic prerequisite for participation. Here is what NDI has demanded of other countries: NDI's foundational guide, Building Confidence in the Voter Registration Process (2001), describes voter ID systems as standard democratic infrastructure. It states that voter registries should contain "voters' photographs and even their fingerprints" and that registered voters should be issued "a voter or other ID card that serves as proof of their right to vote." NDI explains that "issuing ID cards, either national or voting, requires a second point of contact between election officials and voters, which introduces an additional safeguard into the system." (pp. 10–11, 15) NDI's 2015 study of voter registration across the Middle East and North Africa goes further, laying out that voters must "prove their identity, essentially demonstrating that they are who they say they are" and must "affirm their citizenship and age." (p. 11) That same 2001 guide identifies married name changes as a routine voter roll maintenance challenge: "Election officials must update information about people who have moved or who have married and changed their surname." NDI also notes that voter lists "may omit information about changes of address or name for those eligible people who have recently moved or married." NDI's recommendation is not to eliminate voter ID. It is to maintain clean, continuously updated voter rolls that accommodate name changes within the system. In its 2009 Bangladesh report, NDI praised the country's new photo-voter list and national ID card system, noting that the ID cards gave "a sense of empowerment and belonging to the disadvantaged and marginalized people of the country, particularly women." Read that again. NDI itself called voter identification empowering for WOMEN! In every case, NDI's position was identical: marriage-related name changes are a solvable administrative problem. The solution is better record-keeping and updated systems. Not fewer safeguards. Not the elimination of voter ID. Your party's own international arm has already solved the problem you bring up. The answer is: maintain the rolls. Update the records. Issue the IDs. Accommodate name changes within the system, don't use them as a reason to have no system at all. The exact opposite of what you push here - refusing to clean voter rolls. By NDI’s own standards, by the standards of your own international soft power branch, YOUR position is the anti-feminist position. The SAVE America Act asks Americans to do less than what NDI demands of Nicaragua, less than what NDI praises in Morocco, and far less than the biometric fingerprint-and-facial-recognition system NDI supervised in Nigeria. Eighty-four percent of Americans support photo ID to vote. Two-thirds of Democrats support it. Jimmy Carter's own 2005 bipartisan commission recommended it. You voted no. Your party's international arm, funded with taxpayer money, chaired by your party's former Senate leader (Tom Daschle), staffed by your party's most prominent voting-rights advocate, says yes. For everyone else. NDI's guides are publicly available on their website. You might consider reading them before you spout mindless drivel to protect your own grift.

I am with @Pledditor here. This is disgusting. Their son is a generational financial criminal who stole customer money for political donations and mansions. At least we know where he learned his twisted behavior patterns from now.

@brianschatz @VetsForRL We have multiple issues to deal with. Governing is not sequential. Its managing a complex web of issues. Iran is the center of global terrorism. While "Epic Fury" is costly, it will stabilize the Global economy and improve international relations. Sad that you can't grasp this.

For the amount of money the Pentagon is requesting for this insane war we could eliminate hunger in America for a decade. The problem in our country is not a lack of money, it’s a lack of moral clarity.

@RepJeffries Billions being "Wasted." Interesting Phrase Hakeem. Let's compare cost associated with elimination of global terrorism & the cost of waste driven by the social programs You fight so hard to fund. Seizing private property through wealth taxes is fine, eliminating Iran is reckless.

Donald Trump and Republican extremists started a reckless war of choice in the Middle East. Gas prices are way up, billions are being wasted and our country is less safe. We need regime change in America.

Just going to leave this here.

@nicksortor @Shanemgillis Generational content sir, we eagerly await your response

🚨 LMFAO HOLY CRAP! President Trump just dropped an INSANE one-liner in front of the Japanese PM in the Oval REPORTER: Why didn't you tell Japan before the Iran war? TRUMP: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why did you not tell me about PEARL HARBOR!? Right?" 🤣🔥

@BoringBiz_ Local banking should become seed capital for startups.

Jerome Powell said the quiet part out loud The private sector is barely creating any jobs Most of the job growth has been healthcare and social work over the past year. Both are sectors heavily subsidized by the government We already live under universal basic income. Nobody just wants to say it

Don't be IBM and fumble an 18yr head start on AI IBM was the most valuable company on Earth. Invented the hard drive. The PC. The floppy disk. The ATM. DRAM. SQL. The barcode. Most US patents 29 years straight. 405,000 employees. 70% mainframe market share. Today: $231 billion. 67th in the world. Anthropic. Founded 2021. Four years old. $380 billion. Every piece of the bag was fumbled... Invented the PC. Sold to Lenovo: $1.75 billion. Invented the hard drive. Sold to Hitachi: $2 billion. Server business. Sold to Lenovo. Basically nothing. Now the chips. This is pure comedy. IBM was the largest semiconductor manufacturer on Earth. Fabs in New York. Fabs in Vermont. 16,000 patents. They PAID GlobalFoundries $1.5 billion cash to take it. Gave away the factories. Gave away the patents. $4.7 billion write-down. IBM had American fabs. They paid to close them. And the same Democrats who scream about chips going overseas are the ones whose policies made it too expensive to build here. We wouldn't have TSMC/Taiwan issues today. Decisions have consequences. TSMC: $700 billion. Nvidia: $5 trillion. IBM paid to exit chips right before chips became the most valuable industry on Earth. Incredible timing. Deep Blue beats Kasparov. Live television. First machine to outthink a human world champion. IBM owned AI. Not as a buzzword. As a fact. On camera. In front of the whole planet. OpenAI did not exist for another 18 years. Anthropic for another 24. Nvidia was making cards so teenagers could play Halo. Google was two grad students sharing a dorm room. IBM had an 18-year head start on the entire AI industry. What did they do with it. They dismantled Deep Blue. Put it in a museum. Same mentality as every socialist (cough dems) who wants to regulate AI before it ships. Celebrate the breakthrough. Kill the follow-through. Watson wins Jeopardy. Destroys the two greatest players alive on national TV. Most famous AI brand on the planet. IBM spends billions on Watson Health. AI that cures cancer. Their engineers flagged it unsafe. Instead of fixing it they sold it for scraps. Then killed the brand entirely. Loser mentality. IBM Research. Decades of NLP work. The compute. The talent. The CEO looks at LLMs and says "no thanks." Two years later ChatGPT launches. 100 million users in two months. The entire economy reorganizes around the exact technology IBM looked at and said nah. That is like having Google's algorithm in 1997 and deciding to build a phonebook. The suits and the consultants took over. Same thing that kills every city, every agency, every institution that picks socialism over competition. $201 billion in buybacks over 25 years. More on buybacks than CAPEX. They could have funded every AI lab on Earth with that money. Instead they bought their own stock while the stock went down. Revenue down 22 straight quarters. Nobody fired. Name another job where you lose $95 billion in market cap and get a raise. Actually don't. That job only exists at IBM and in Congress. Buffett bought $12 billion in IBM. The greatest investor alive. Held six years. Dumped it on CNBC. "I was wrong." Put the money in Apple. Best investment in Berkshire history. They had the patents. The labs. The engineers. The brand. An 18-year head start on AI. Replaced the builders with bureaucrats. Chose buybacks over R&D. Chose administration over competition. Lost everything. Now look at who wants to run the same playbook on the AI economy. Bernie wants data center moratoriums. Tax the builders before they finish building. Ro Khanna represents $18 trillion in Silicon Valley market cap. Apple. Nvidia. Google. His district built AI. He just held a Stanford town hall with Bernie called "Who Controls AI: The Oligarchs or The People." Wants to tax unrealized gains. Pause data centers. Put unions on AI boards. Redistribute wealth that hasn't been created yet. His own district is trying to primary him. Not because he's too progressive. Because he's trying to kneecap the industry that made his district the most valuable zip code on Earth. That is IBM energy. Tax the engineers. Slow the builders. Add a committee. Wonder why nothing works. Gavin ran California from a $97 billion surplus into a $68 billion deficit. Lost 789 companies. Tesla. SpaceX. Oracle. Chevron. 200,000 people leaving per year. And he thinks he should have a say in how AI gets built nationally. The guy who can't keep In-N-Out Burger in California wants to regulate the most important technology since electricity. These aren't hypotheticals. This is the IBM playbook in real time. Replace engineers with regulators. Replace competition with committees. Replace building with administrating. And act shocked when the talent leaves and the lead disappears. IBM went from first to 67th. 1.43% a year for 28 years. A savings account beat that. Don't let them do it to America. Name a bigger fumble. I'll wait.

The regime is collapsing in Iran but thriving in Western media and academia

@handleym99 @eigenrobot US has become the scale of global justice. If you don't want to access the ecosystem, thats fine, but don't expect to have a full seat at the table.

I think there's more going on here. Trump has so successfully cultivated his "I'm a moron" image that people fall for it every time. But what's really happening here? What are the second order consequences? The US will win the war, including control of Kharg and Hormuz. And it will the the *US* that won these - not Europe, not the UN. Meaning the US gets to decide what happens with them. If the US wants to annex them, or give them to Dubai and UAE or whatever, well Europe and the UN can STFU because they had zero hand in this aspect of the war. In other words Trump's team is (as they often do) setting up a situation where most outcomes result in a goal they want. Sure it would be convenient to have European help for Hormuz. But it would be a fine consolation prize to wreck one more element of the UN/European-system if he does not get that help. There's something similar in the Chinese interaction. If China helps, great. If they don't help, well they will suffer the most. And if they do help and their equipment is revealed to be sub-optimal, that's also a good outcome...

i think the main lesson here is that in a war with china the us can expect zero (0) help from europe and we should probably plan accordingly and adjust our asset placement to reflect europe's go-forward value to us

@WarClandestine That has become clear. Much of the EU does not reflect shared interests with the USA. Hard to shake hands and get punched in the face at the same time.

Iran is proving how NATO provides little to no benefit to the US. Not only does the US not need any help from NATO, they aren’t willing to help anyways. NATO gives Europe security assurances via our military, without paying their share. We, the US taxpayer, essentially pay for the defense of Europe, and we receive nothing in return. We don’t need NATO, but they DESPERATELY need us.

Islamic terrorist attacks are just blowback from America’s GWOT, which was just blowback from 9/11, which was just blowback from America supporting Israel, which was just blowback from the Ottomans fighting against America and Britain in WW1, which was just blowback from Britain seizing Egypt and supporting Greek freedom from the Ottomans, which was just blowback from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and hundreds of years of oppression, which was just blowback from the Crusades, which were just blowback from the Seljuk conquest of Anatolia, which was just blowback from the Byzantine Empire’s expansion into Syria under the Macedonian dynasty, which was just blowback from the Arab conquest of Byzantine Syria and Egypt and North Africa and repeated siege attempts against Constantinople, which was just blowback from the Byzantines no longer paying Arab tribes to defend the frontier against Persia, which was just blowback from an extended Persian invasion of the Byzantine Empire, which was just blowback from 700 years of warfare between Rome and Persia, which was just blowback from Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia, which was just blowback from Darius and Xerxes’ invasions of Greece, which was just blowback from Athens supporting the Ionian revolts against the Persian Empire, which was just blowback from Cyrus the Great conquering the Ionian Greeks of Anatolia, but before that everybody in history probably got along.

𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗔 𝗟𝗜𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗧 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗞 𝗦𝗔𝗬𝗦 𝗜𝗧 — 𝗣𝗔𝗬 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 Julian Epstein is not some cable-news talking head playing devil's advocate. This man was Chief Minority Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during Bill Clinton's impeachment — one of the most senior Democrat operatives in Washington at the peak of the Clinton machine. He has spent his entire career as a card-carrying Democrat insider. And he just called his own party's conduct unconscionable. On camera. Without apology. 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺. He called out Democrats for trying to sabotage the war effort — and defunding key elements of domestic security against terrorism 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵. That's the DHS shutdown Schiff and Senate Democrats are defending right now. While Americans are being att∗cked on domestic soil. Then Epstein said the thing nobody on the left wants to say out loud: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘥. He also laid out what Trump's military campaign has actually accomplished — ballistic missiles largely neutralized, the Iranian Navy largely disarmed, the nuclear program largely dismantled, the regime itself largely disarmed. The one remaining question is the Strait of Hormuz — and Epstein said he's confident a solution is coming. Then came the devastation: 𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘀 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲. Their entire Iran policy for decades has been diplomacy, giving them money, treating them nicely, and trusting international organizations. And Iran looked at all of it and 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘀. This isn't a Republican saying this. This is one of them. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁.

🚨 Do you understand what Marc Andreessen just said? > Steve Jobs Knew What To Do. Apple fired him. > Ilya Sutskever Knew What To Do. OpenAI fired him. > The Winklevoss twins Knew What To Do. Zuckerberg stole it. Every generation, the person who Knows What To Do gets punished by the people who Know How To Play Politics. Then 10 years later we write books about how they were right all along. AI doesn't care about your politics. It doesn't care about your title. It just builds whatever the person who Knows What To Do tells it to... For the first time in history, knowing what to do is enough. You don't need permission anymore... And that terrifies every boardroom in America..

@mitchellvii Deserved

Harry Enten just dropped BRUTAL POLLING TRUTH on CNN about congressional Democrats! He said Democrats are lower in the minds of the American public than the Dead Sea. The studio went dead silent after that line hit. The numbers are crushing: congressional Dems sit at a record-low approval, 55 points underwater overall. Only south of 20% approve. Among independents it's even worse - a staggering negative 61 points. Even some registered Democrats disapprove for the first time ever. Enten called it the worst shape congressional Democrats have been in since polling started. No hiding from data this devastating. Thoughts? ⬇️

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut... and you have to hear about this guy because it's one of the most incredible, most brazen, most dishonest examples of hypocrisy you'll ever see in American politics. Maybe ever. And there's a lot of competition, believe me. Back in 2014, Murphy is on the Senate floor, he's giving speeches, he's writing resolutions, and he's telling every Republican in Washington... don't you dare undermine these Iran negotiations. Don't do it. He said if Congress shows it doesn't take the talks seriously, it'll destroy our credibility with allies, scare off our negotiating partners, give Russia and China an excuse to walk, and leave us with nothing but a military option. His words. Not anyone else's. His words. And by the way, Trump rebuilt the military, made it the strongest, the most powerful, the most technologically advanced fighting force the world has ever seen... nobody's even close... so the military option isn't quite the disaster it would've been under the previous administration, but that's a separate story. So what happens? Trump gets back into office, and he starts serious indirect talks with Iran. April 2025. Oman-mediated. Very tough, very sophisticated negotiations. Steve Witkoff, incredible guy, working the back channels. Trump gave them a real deadline... sixty days... because he doesn't do endless process. He does deals. Zero enrichment, ship out the uranium, dismantle the key sites, open the doors to inspectors. Clear demands. Generous terms, frankly, very generous, because he didn't have to offer them anything. He could've just hit them. But Trump wanted to give diplomacy a chance because that's what a strong leader does. And what does Murphy do? The same Chris Murphy who said you must not undermine negotiations while they're happening? He goes on television. He goes to Iran International, which the Iranians are watching, and he calls Trump a liar. Says he has no idea what Trump is trying to achieve. Says most of what Trump says isn't real. He pushes war powers resolutions to tie the President's hands. He's out there broadcasting American division to the entire world... to Iran, to our allies, to everybody... while the United States is sitting at the table trying to close a deal that could've avoided all of this. All of it. And it gets worse. Murphy secretly met with Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, back in 2020. Secretly. Behind everyone's back. During Trump's first term. So he'll freelance with the Mullahs, but he won't support his own country's negotiating position when it matters. Think about that. Iran watched all of this. They watched Murphy trash America's leverage in real time. They saw the division. They stalled. They rejected every core demand. Zero enrichment? No. Ship out the uranium? No. Dismantle the facilities? Absolutely not. And the talks collapsed. They collapsed because Iran believed... correctly, unfortunately... that they didn't have to make a deal because half of Washington was working against the other half. And Murphy was leading the charge. So the only card left was the military card. The very thing Murphy warned about in 2014. The very thing he said would happen if politicians undermined negotiations. He predicted the mess. Then he spent a year engineering the mess. Then the military option becomes necessary, and now he's on NPR calling the war "incoherent." Now he's calling Trump senile. Now he wants to block all Senate business and defund the operation. The man who helped make the war inevitable is now complaining about the war. Incredible. And by the way... this is the same guy they're floating for 2028. That's their big idea. A senator from Connecticut who sabotaged his own country's diplomacy, sided with Iran's talking points, and now wants to be President. Good luck with that, Chris. Good luck. You have to ask the question. At what point does undermining your own country's foreign policy in the middle of the most sensitive, most high-stakes, most consequential negotiations in decades... at what point does that stop being opposition and start being something else? Because the people of Connecticut deserve better, the people of this country deserve better, and our incredible warriors now in harm’s way... including the 13 who lost their lives because diplomacy failed... they sure as hell deserve better than Chris Murphy.

@Currentreport1 @JagersbergKnut They chose their side

BREAKING: France has officially rejected Trump's request, saying it will not send warships to the Strait of Hormuz

AOC voted against U.S. support for Iron Dome and literally cried in Congress when the vote passed. The Iron Dome has saved thousands of innocent Israeli lives since October 7, 2023. AOC voted against the Antisemitism Awareness Act in 2024. AOC supported the pro-Hamas student activists at Columbia University after October 7, and said during her visit to the students illegally harassing Jews that she spported only "good Jews." @AOC campaigned on behalf of Jamaal Bowman on 2024, who denies rapes occurred on October 7 and invoked antisemitic tropes in campaign events for Bowman. When Bowman lost his primary, he blamed a Jewish conspiracy against him for his loss. AOC has been so blatantly antisemitic in her attacks on Israel that infamous KKK leader David Duke praised her in 2024 on X What are going to believe: A CYA tweet 2 days ago or AOC's consistent actions and statements since October 7 that she is a leading antisemitic member of the woke left.

🚨Important Status Update Regarding the SAVE America Act 🚨 We’re making serious progress @LeaderJohnThune and his team have been working closely with us