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@cafreiman And where does this market economy exist?

Humans get rich in a market economy by “growing more bananas,” not hoarding them.

@TedRall Fundamental flaw in the US political system. The US should adopt a multi-party parliamentary system.

No real patriot puts their faith in a single human.

@covie_93 @ABC It's academic sounding gibberish for the invisible hand.

@ABC Why are you calling donald trump a "hidden force"??

A hidden force is quietly pushing up costs for everything from your summer vacation to your weekly grocery bills: a weaker U.S. dollar. abcnews.link/l7pFAI6

@JamesSurowiecki Also known as, socialism for the rich.

In other words, for 60 years the US govt has forced American consumers to pay thousands more for pickups in order to protect US automakers from competition.

Mike Huckabee’s explanation for why young Americans hate Israel: “We simply haven’t programmed the youth correctly.”

John Roberts Is George Wallace With a Harvard Law Degree | What the infamous segregationist from Alabama could not accomplish with violence, the US Supreme Court Justice has accomplished with a pen.​ commondreams.org/opinion/john-r…

This is just an Israeli press statement. It’s not journalism.

@uspolitics1111 Is money the number one predictor of electoral success in American politics?

Cori Bush lost because her opponent got fifteen million dollars from AIPAC. Jamaal Bowman, too.

@marwilliamson They don't "honor" the constitution, they're supposed to enforce it.

Not even pretending to honor the Constitution

@IAmPoliticsGirl Is it illegal for a Judge that does not follow the law.

The role of a federal judge is to interpret the constitution. This answer, or lack there of, should disqualifying all of them.

This Wall Street insider just exposed the secret doomsday escape plans of AI billionaires. 1 in 3 billionaires has a fully funded plan to abandon civilization when things collapse. They meet their pilots at Oakland airport, board a Gulfstream 650, fly to New Zealand, and disappear into a bunker that cost tens of millions to build. And this isn't some conspiracy theory. There's literally PROOF: Sam Altman told The New Yorker he stockpiles guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, and gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force. He owns a patch of land in Big Sur he can fly to when society breaks down. His backup plan is flying with Peter Thiel to Thiel's compound in New Zealand. Peter Thiel became a New Zealand citizen in 2011 after spending only 12 days in the country. He bought a 477-acre estate for $13.5 million and submitted plans for a bunker-style compound embedded into a hillside with a 1,082-foot glass-lined guest lodge for 24 people. Mark Zuckerberg is building a 5,000 square foot underground shelter beneath his $270 million compound in Hawaii. Blast-resistant doors made of metal and concrete, its own energy and food supplies, and an escape hatch accessible by ladder. Every construction worker signed an NDA and different crews were forbidden from speaking to each other. Larry Page, co-founder of Google, quietly disappeared to Fiji during the pandemic. He reportedly bought at least one private island in the Mamanuca archipelago. When local media reported his presence, Fijian authorities ordered the article taken down. Scott Galloway sat with one of these billionaires who walked him through his entire exit strategy step by step. His response: "You don't think your pilots are going to kill you and fuck your wife? You don't think the people in New Zealand are going to come take the rich guy's shit?" But here's the thing that really matters... These are the SAME people building AI. The same founders telling Congress that AI will cure cancer have already decided they're leaving when it goes sideways. Galloway confirmed a secondhand account from someone close to one of these AI CEOs. The CEO admitted he believes there's a 7 to 10% chance AI results in a catastrophic event for humanity. And he doesn't care because being the person who summoned this intelligence is "more consequential than whatever happens." These billionaires don't use public healthcare. They have concierge medicine delivered to their living room. Their kids attend $75,000 per year academies while public schools spend $10,000. They fly private. They have private security instead of police. Galloway's words: "The 0.1% are no longer invested in the well-being of America. They've totally dissociated because they're sequestered from it." And the incentives to reach that level are so extreme that founders will make ANY decision necessary to get there. Galloway called it the Darth Vader pipeline. Every tech CEO follows the same arc: Sam Altman was "the gay son we all wanted." Soft spoken, testifying before Congress about safety. Now he's subpoenaing nonprofits that criticize OpenAI and telling people to stop complaining about energy costs. Galloway on all of them: "These guys would sleep with their cousin for a nickel." The next chosen hero is Dario Amodei at Anthropic. Galloway says he'll follow the exact same path because the system makes it inevitable. Then he dropped his most dangerous prediction: He thinks there's a 1 in 3 chance AI ends up like jet transportation, vaccines, or PCs. Technologies that changed civilization but where NO group of companies ever captured serious shareholder value. The entire airline industry across all of history is at break even. Moderna is down 90%. AI models are converging. Open weight Chinese models are free and a third of corporations are already using them. His prediction: Go short the AI ecosystem. The winner of AI might be us, the users. Not the companies. And if he's right, the domino effect is terrifying... 40% of the S&P is tied to AI. Most GDP growth over the last two years came from AI capex. So if corporations start dropping OpenAI and Anthropic for free Chinese models, the entire market could crash. This is just like the Chinese steel dumping in the 80s: Flood America with cheap AI, kneecap the companies propping up the stock market, then trigger a recession without firing a single shot. The billionaires building AI have escape plans ready. They've detached from society entirely. They know there's a real chance this ends badly and they're building it anyway. Every tech hero turns villain on a shorter timeline. And the financial system is so dependent on AI valuations that one move from China could bring it all down. And we're still trusting these people to self-regulate. What do you think?

@ThePowerAudit @zerohedge Will the US fire on Iranian ships that breach the US blockade?

This is a savvy legal move by Trump. May 1: War Powers letter formally ends hostilities, preserves force posture, asserts Article II constitutional authority. May 3: "Project Freedom" announced as a humanitarian operation, not military. Monday: US Navy escorts neutral commercial ships through Hormuz under freedom of navigation rights. If Iran fires on it: that is Iran starting a new conflict. Trump is responding defensively, not attacking. No new War Powers clock starts because the US did not initiate hostilities. Iran did.

@lindyli Have you heard of systemic racism in the US?

If you need racial preferences to get elected to Congress, maybe you shouldn’t be there If you need racial quotas & affirmative action to get into elite colleges, maybe you aren’t qualified If you need DEI programs to get hired, maybe you don’t deserve to be there Just sayin🤷🏻‍♀️

@DavidBahnsen @brithume You said nothing about ticket pricing.

James - No sir, there is a near zero chance. The cost synergies, greater use of and capacity for fuel hedges, increased access to capital markets, lower cost of capital, plane resources, parts sourcing, labor structure, gate access, and management talent would have all created a fundamentally different airline. All there would be is a company whose employees were not out of a job, vendors who would be getting paid, and creditors not losing billions. This is a catastrophic failure of excessive state intervention and no spin will change that.

Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of child trafficking 1,586 days ago. None of her clients have been arrested...

Contrast this sick racist fascist with this. The U.S./EU/NATO Axis Of Domination is enemy of collective humanity. What side are you on? x.com/i/status/20506…

@rsvpvspr @DropSiteNews We never had true free trade. And globalization was just American corporations attacking US unions and workers by outsourcing their jobs (mostly to China).

@DropSiteNews Time to choose. So globalisation and free trade is over then. It’s either the West or the East.

🇨🇳 China Invokes Blocking Statute for First Time China’s Ministry of Commerce has for the first time activated its 2021 Blocking Rules, ordering all Chinese firms and individuals not to comply with U.S. sanctions targeting five independent Chinese oil refineries accused of purchasing Iranian crude. Beijing called the U.S. measures, imposed under two executive orders, an “unjustified” and “improper” use of extraterritorial law. The move puts multinational companies operating in both markets in direct legal conflict: compliance with U.S. sanctions now risks violating Chinese law, and vice versa. Global banks and firms with dollar exposure face secondary sanctions risk if they continue dealing with the affected refineries. Analysts describe the order as a significant step toward competing legal frameworks for global trade, accelerating the path to potential economic “decoupling” between the two powers.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Journalist Ana Kasparian says the Trump administration begged private satellite companies to hide images of destroyed US bases. The Pentagon was allegedly terrified the world will see how Iran completely humiliated the Trump's military.

@WildWestShow4 @atrupar Bulls eye.

@atrupar Love it. This guy is the best Trump spokesman of the bunch. He's so epically lazy and arrogant about his "looking down his nose BS propaganda" to we the people that it's great. Just his face alone pisses voters off. Please keep rolling this messaging train wreck out to folks.

BARTIROMO: Treasury was supposed to be doing a deal to save Spirit Airlines. Can you tell us what happened? BESSENT: This is just more of the mess we inherited from the Biden administration