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Good morning to all my fellow Americans with Trump derangement syndrome
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Dan F
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Dan F
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i tweet about all sorts of useless shit.
ellicott city, md Katılım Nisan 2007
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@BarroomNetwork I remember there being some kind of explainer at the time (been three or four years now?), but I don't remember off-hand.
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this being the funniest video in history
love 💫 pitt s2 spoilers@undercoverfren
this scene just keeps getting funnier every time i see it smh
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crazy to think that there's a whole “country” of “England” and they all live actually like that
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@transgreghouse @flipfloptime69 i need answers about why the algorithm is feeding me this kind of pitt content
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why is she hitting the golden freddy pose
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Without saying anything, how long have you been playing video games?
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I don’t think people truly understand what’s about to happen with 𝕏 Money.
This is Elon going back to his roots - back to x.com - and building what he always wanted in the first place: one place that runs your entire financial life.
When he rebranded Twitter to 𝕏 in 2023, he said straight up that we’re adding the ability to conduct your entire financial world. He even said you may not even need a traditional bank account.
Most people brushed that off. And now it’s becoming real.
𝕏 Money has already been live in closed beta internally within the company. A limited external beta is expected soon, and they’ve already secured money transmitter licenses in over 40 states plus DC. 𝕏 Payments is registered with FinCEN. Visa is officially partnered. You’ll be able to fund your wallet instantly, send peer-to-peer payments, move money to your bank, and eventually use a debit card.
And I think this is just the beginning.
This will probably start as a simple wallet where you can send money as easily as sending a DM. With this technology, you can pay creators, pay subscriptions, pay whatever bills, shop inside the app, get paid inside the app, and much more.
Then, there will be high-yield savings, you can invest, you can get loans, have money market accounts, maybe even treasury access, cool smart cashtags that let you see live stock prices in your timeline and execute trades seamlessly, crypto integration, potentially full asset management… the list goes on and on… Elon literally said this is meant to be the central source of ALL monetary transactions.
Bro… think about that for a sec.
Your 𝕏 profile becomes your financial identity.
Everyone you follow is already there. Everyone you interact with is already there. That social graph becomes your distribution engine. Like, you won’t need a separate banking app, no need for a separate investing app, no need for a separate payment app… this all lives where you already spend your time. Right here on 𝕏.
Look at WeChat in China, which Elon always alluded to. Payments, messaging, shopping, investing - all integrated in one app. It handles $ trillions in volume and became deeply embedded in everyone’s daily life. Now 𝕏 is building the Western version of that, but with a more global reach, and xAI’s AI layered on top of all this.
Before you call me crazy, you have to understand how big this opportunity is.
Digital payments globally are measured in the tens of $ trillions of dollars annually. Even just capturing a small slice of that across hundreds of millions, and eventually a billion, users can change everything. 𝕏 already has the audience. That lowers customer acquisition costs significantly. Add fintech revenue on top of ads, plus float, plus lending, plus investing tools, and we’re talking about a completely different valuation profile.
Now, $44B for this company looks like the bargain of the decade… this was one of the main reasons I invested in 𝕏.
And if they execute the way they’ve executed at Tesla and SpaceX, this could truly fundamentally redefine how people handle $ .
Most people today still see 𝕏 as just a social media app. I see it as the foundation of a financial system layered on top of a global network. Ultimately becoming the “everything” app.
And this I believe is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
Elon is calling this a game-changer.
I believe him.
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While 11,000 flights were cancelled and commercial airspace shut indefinitely, the ultra-wealthy drove ten-hour SUV convoys from Dubai to Riyadh and Muscat to board charter jets at $350,000 per seat to London.
Read that again.
The airports are cratered. The airspace is closed. The routes are NOTAMed through March. And the exit is a ten-hour drive through a warzone to a functioning runway in another country, available exclusively to those who can pay six figures for a seat on a Nextant out of Muscat at triple the normal rate.
Everyone else is stranded.
This is not a travel disruption story. This is the most expensive real-time stress test ever conducted on the Dubai economic model, and the results are coming in ugly.
Dubai’s economy is 88% expatriate. Its GDP is built on the implicit promise that this is the safest, most connected, most accessible hub in the region. That promise held for two decades. It shattered in 72 hours. Stock trading halted. Hotel no-eviction orders issued. Real estate transactions frozen, with 60 to 80% of deals on hold. Tourism revenues across the GCC totalling $120 billion per year now face structural repricing.
Here is the mechanism the market has not absorbed. The people boarding those $350,000 charters are not tourists. They are the capital. They are the family office principals, the fund managers, the UHNW residents whose presence underwrites Dubai’s entire financial ecosystem. When they leave, they do not just take their luggage. They take their deposits, their deal flow, their counterparty confidence, and their insurance on every asset denominated in the assumption that Dubai is permanent.
The question is no longer whether they left.
It is whether they come back.
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
Dubai just shut down. The busiest international airport on earth. Closed. Indefinitely. Dubai International and Al Maktoum International both suspended all operations on February 28 per official Dubai Airports statement. Over 280 flights canceled. 250 more delayed. The airspace that handles more international passengers than any hub on the planet went dark this morning because Iranian ballistic missiles were flying through it. Now read the airline list and understand the scale of what just broke. Emirates. Grounded. Etihad. Grounded. Qatar Airways. Suspended all flights to and from Doha after Qatari airspace closed. Air India. Every single flight to every destination in the entire Middle East. Suspended indefinitely. Turkish Airlines. Suspended flights to Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Syria, Qatar, and the UAE until at least March 2. Lufthansa. Dubai suspended. Air France. Tel Aviv and Beirut suspended. Wizz Air. Israel, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Amman suspended until March 7. British Airways. Affected. Virgin Atlantic. Affected. Japan Airlines. Affected. Norwegian Air, LOT Polish, Scandinavian Airlines, Aegean, Iberia, Air Arabia, PIA, Saudia, Air Algerie. All affected. All grounded or rerouting. This is not a regional disruption. This is the global aviation network breaking at one of its most critical nodes. Dubai is not just an airport. It is the single largest connecting hub between Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Every flight from Mumbai to London, from Singapore to Frankfurt, from Nairobi to New York that routes through the Gulf is now either canceled, delayed, or burning extra fuel on thousand-mile detours around closed airspace. IndiGo just suspended flights to Almaty, Baku, Tashkent, and Tbilisi until March 28. Not March 2. March 28. A month of Central Asian connectivity erased because Iranian missiles crossed the flight paths. The cost is compounding by the hour. Rerouted flights burn more fuel when oil is spiking past 100 dollars a barrel because the same conflict that closed the airspace is threatening the strait that moves 21 million barrels a day. Airlines are paying surge prices for fuel to fly longer routes around a war zone that did not exist yesterday morning. Every hour the airspace stays closed, the losses multiply across carriers already operating on thin margins. And here is what nobody is calculating yet. Dubai’s economy runs on connectivity. Tourism. Trade. Finance. Logistics. All of it depends on DXB being open. The UAE just absorbed an act of war on its sovereign territory with a civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from missile debris. The country that built its entire economic model on being the safe, neutral, connected hub of the Middle East is now closed for business because the country it had no quarrel with fired missiles through its airspace. Iran did not just attack military bases this morning. Iran shut down the economic engine of the Gulf. That is a cost Tehran cannot afford to repay and the UAE will not forget.
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Iran had some of the best scientists in the world. They could have developed nuclear weapons very quickly if they decided to. But somehow the Ayatollah believed the West could be reasoned with. He was partially right. He signed the nuclear deal with Obama and complied with it. Then that became a campaign issue in the U.S.
Trump got elected and betrayed Iran on that basis and, as a consequence, the Ayatollah was assassinated. Meanwhile, if Iran had followed North Korea’s lead, they’d have already developed nukes and been invulnerable from U.S. threats. Those are the lessons learned. And everyone’s watching.
Reggie Saxx@ReggiSaxx
so Ayatollah Khamenei was actually holding Iran back militarily? why?
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As yet another preemptive war is begun in the Middle East, John Quincy Adam’s words of wisdom still ring true:
“Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.”
Like most Americans I have sympathy for the plight of the Iranian people and all subjected people around the globe, from North Korea to Tibet.
But as Adam’s wrote, America: “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”
The Constitution conferred the power to declare or initiate war to Congress for a reason, to make war less likely.
Madison wrote that “the Executive Branch is the branch most prone to war, therefore, the Constitution, with studied care, delegated the war power to the legislature.”
As with all war, my first and purest instinct is wish Americans soldiers safety and success in their mission.
But my oath of office is to the Constitution, so with studied care, I must oppose another Presidential war.
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To any future historians reading this, this era will make a lot more sense if you remember that every name is the opposite of what it really is. The antifascists are fascists, the antiracists are racists, the fact-checkers are propagandists, etc. Hopefully this has been fixed by your time.
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Gone for a few weeks, the Trump banner is back up at the Labor Department
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