pgdubz
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon: Raising taxes will just hand more money to scammers and lobbyists.
To his credit, he admits banks are one of the biggest scammers and lobbyists ✌️
The solution is starve the beast. Start with repealing the income tax.
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says that US Government raising taxes doesn’t do anything to help the average American He says raising taxes does nothing because Congress just launders the money to their friends, special interest groups and “17,000 lobbying groups” “I don't know anyone, and you guys in the room, you might be Democrats, Republicans who thinks that sending another trillion dollars to Washington D.C will actually improve anything. So when you say raise taxes, if you said raise taxes and directly give it to the people who need it, do it. That does not happen. It goes to all these interest groups, and they give it to their friends and all that.” “Which is why the people are considered a swamp. It's kind of a swamp, the 17,000 lobbying groups. But bank companies are guilty too. They're just fighting for their one self-interest as opposed to what's good for my country”
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In 2029, Apophis, a ~370m asteroid, will pass just ~31,000 km from Earth.
That’s ~1/10 the distance to the Moon.
Inside the orbit of geostationary satellites.
Visible to the naked eye.
Impact risk this time is low, but the flyby could shift its future trajectory.
A direct hit would mean a ~1 km crater and regional devastation.
That’s why becoming multiplanetary matters.
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Jason Everman. Guitarist in Nirvana, bassist in Soundgarden. Kicked out of both. Most people would have called that rock bottom. Jason called it a starting point. In 1994 he put down the guitar and enlisted in the Army, eventually serving with the 2nd Ranger Battalion and then completing the Special Forces Qualification Course, deploying to both Afghanistan and Iraq as a Green Beret with 3rd Special Forces Group. After leaving the service he went to Tibet, studied in a Buddhist monastery, came back, and then earned a philosophy degree from Columbia University with a letter of recommendation from General Stanley McChrystal. Nirvana. Soundgarden. Army Rangers. Green Berets. Columbia University. There is no template for a life like that. Jason Everman just lived it.
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🇺🇸 Neuralink is giving people back what disease and injury took.
21 patients are already browsing, gaming, and controlling devices with their thoughts.
Real independence is back. Elon keeps building tech that restores humanity, not replaces it.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
Whatever the mainstream media wants you to believe about Elon, this is the truth: he's changing people's lives for the better. “When you haven’t heard someone talk for four years, the thought that they might be able to talk again was mind-blowing."
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@QuantumAlteredX I've never once dreamed anything with a cell phone, computer, television or just about any kind of technology. hell, I rarely dream about anyone I know
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🚨 do you understand what Iran just said tonight..
a senior official went on CNN and told the world that Tehran will "determine when the war ends".. and they "will not stop until we teach Trump and Netanyahu a historic lesson"..
read that again..
let me show you every country that looked America in the eye and said the same thing..
Vietnam 1965.. "we will fight until the last man".. America bombed them for 10 years.. deployed 500,000 troops.. spent $840 billion.. and left in 1975 with nothing..
Afghanistan 2001.. the Taliban told reporters "we are patient.. you are not".. America stayed for 20 years.. spent $2.3 trillion.. and flew out of Kabul in the middle of the night in 2021..
Iraq is still burning.. Libya is still split in two..
the United States has more aircraft carriers than the next 10 countries combined.. spends more on defense than the next 9 nations put together..
and hasn't won a land war on someone else's soil since 1945..
so when Iran says "we'll decide when this ends"..
they're not making a threat..
they're quoting a pattern that nobody in Washington wants to say out loud...
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
Senior Iranian official tells CNN that Tehran will 'determine when the war ends' and 'we will not stop defending until we teach Trump and Netanyahu a historic lesson'
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@kekmaximusk I've met countless artists who made great music and made a lot of money and they were very successful
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Without drugs... what is the greatest weapon against anxiety and depression?
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Jordan Peterson shared one of the most sobering statistics I’ve heard in a long time.
The U.S. Armed Forces — after over a century of careful psychometric research driven by life-and-death necessity — will not induct anyone with an IQ below 83. They concluded that there is simply nothing in the military (at any level) that such a person can be trained to do without being counterproductive.
Peterson noted that this threshold captures roughly one in ten people. And if the military’s complexity is even roughly comparable to broader society, that means about 10% of the population has no viable place in our cognitively demanding world.
He emphasized that this isn’t about lack of money or short-term training. The data shows it’s extremely difficult to turn low cognitive ability into the kind of adaptive, creative problem-solving that modern society requires.
It’s a raw, uncomfortable truth about human variation that most people prefer not to discuss openly.
What do you think — is this statistic something society needs to confront honestly, or is there a better way to think about it?
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@WallStreetMav @SteveHiatt77 I see UK connections everywhere in my color revolution research. Some “friends.”
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We no longer have a "special relationship" with Britain.
We have decided Japan is our new BFF.
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Tesla AI self-driving will be >10X safer than human driving
Tesla@Tesla
Instead of simply braking after the fact, FSD is able to anticipate intent before a pedestrian even steps into the road
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You do know when marxists chant “No Kings,” they mean Jesus, right?
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@301tom147095 @EricLDaugh @DataRepublican I don’t think it can be done the masculine way, guns blazing etc. it has to be what @EMBurlingame would call estrogenic
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! DNI Tulsi Gabbard has learned that US intelligence intercepted Ukraine government plans to route HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of American tax dollars to boost Biden's 2024 campaign against Donald Trump, and the DNC — Just The News
Gabbard is now asking the US Agency for International Development to determine if the "plot" was carried out.
The US tax dollars were earmarked for Ukraine to use for "clean energy"
Gabbard's team even found that the communications — intercepted under BIDEN — were NOT even thoroughly investigated
IMAGINE THAT. Investigate and expose it all, DNI Gabbard!
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Nobody did more to undermine the 2020 election than Zuckerberg: he donated $350 million to CTCL to basically fund Joe Biden's takeover.
So Trump is taking his revenge by (check notes) making him his AI advisor.
That's our guy: generous to his enemies and fatal to his friends.
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@wintonARK @elonmusk You should get an exoskeleton to walk around for you as well.
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It really is bizarre.
Most of my friends don't have FSD (or a Tesla).
And it is the single biggest lifestyle difference between us.
They drive their cars.
My car drives me.
They don't get how much--even at its current capability-level--the product changes life-feel.
FSD truly is a mass luxury product. That it is still so narrowly enjoyed is mind-bending.
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@johnkonrad I suppose they want to preserve some sort of continuity for the people who will run that country after the cunty mullahs
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Ok but I still have to ask… why don’t we just seize the Iranian tankers and sell the oil ourselves?
Annmarie Hordern@annmarie
Bessent to @kwelkernbc: “In essence, we are jujitsuing the Iranians. We are using their own oil against them.”
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What Depeche Mode song was your joint back in the day?
Mine was 🎶 Never Let Me Down Again
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