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@LarryTaunton @GiorgiaMeloni yup. some 'thing' happened. Spain went full anti-us 3/2. Italy disallowed use of Sicilian based by end of month claiming constitutional issues.

It’s sad to me that @GiorgiaMeloni has burned a bridge not only with President Trump, but with the American people who adopted her as one of their own. She’s behaved like a middle school “mean girl.”

@CWNazarian @reindsummit @valaratomics @neros_tech building with atoms not bits. YEA

in the last 72 hours: - successful @reindsummit - @valaratomics went critical - @neros_tech hit 1000+ drones in a week we are going to win.

@sfliberty the short about the recording of the song is very moving.

In July 1985, over a billion people watched Live Aid. Months earlier, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie had written "We Are the World." All of it was a response to a famine in Ethiopia. Almost nobody remembers who actually caused the famine. 🧵

@FalcoDlamini1 @sfliberty you did not read the article.

@sfliberty My understanding was that Ethiopia has very fertile land alongside the great rift valley. Owners of the land were forcibly removed in the late 70s to non fertile land so that Belgium and other European countries could have large scale farming. How far from the truth is this?

@PapiTrumpo listen to their Star Spangled Banner. goose bumps. x.com/BuzzPatterson/…

AMERICA IS HEALING!!!❤️🇺🇸

@washghost1 THIS IS A SEIZURE and NOT funny. could be epilepsy and a vet is needed.

I’ve had a few cats that would be in a deep sleep like this and it scared me

@BuzzPatterson tens of thousands pissing and moaning about an MOU were wasting time on a worthless piece of paper. if you think Trump didn't know this when signing, you have not been paying attention. and the end will be total capitulation or destruction.

Is Israel a Friend or a Foe? Folks, we need to have a straight talk about what’s happening right now in the Middle East. President Trump just pulled off a huge win with the preliminary 14-point Iran MOU: ceasefire extension, Strait of Hormuz back open toll-free, sanctions relief on oil exports, and Iran agreeing to dial back the nuclear insanity for now. There’s even talk of a massive reconstruction fund if they seal the full deal. Trump’s calling it a big victory for America, stabilizing oil prices and taking the wind out of the mullahs’ sails. But here’s the problem: Israel and Hezbollah started trading heavy blows again in southern Lebanon — strikes, rockets, drones, dozens dead — and it nearly torpedoed the whole Iran framework. Talks in Switzerland got postponed because of it. Trump is furious with Netanyahu. He’s reportedly told Bibi he’s “f—ing crazy” on calls, pushed hard for the new ceasefire (which kicked in yesterday), and publicly griped that Israel doesn’t need to level a building every time a Hezbollah guy walks in. He still says he’s Israel’s biggest supporter. “Without me, there’d be no Israel,” he said. But right now their actions are complicating America’s big diplomatic and economic win. America First means we support our allies when they align with our interests. But when they risk dragging us into endless drama that undercuts our victories, we have every right to ask: Friend or foe? Israel has been a key partner, no question. But loyalty isn’t a blank check. Trump is right to prioritize de-escalation and locking in the Iran deal. Time for Bibi to get on board or step back. What do you think? America’s interests first? — Buzz Patterson

@SteveLovesAmmo @RepShriThanedar children instinctively recognize aberrance

@RepShriThanedar One like in 30 minutes on this post? 😂 Watch this comment ratio you into oblivion.

On Juneteenth, speaking to constituents about protecting our voting rights!

@DavidMKeyes X has save the right. X is also the dystopian nightmare we are supposed to fear and instead choose to ignore.

Should accurately stating Iran's aims be a violation of X's rules?

@AntiWokeMemes yes or no. doesn't matter. is aberrant and should never be accepted. (if you want to tolerate an individual, go right ahead.) aberrant - having lost the basic instinct to procreate and insure the future of one's species. period.

Be honest… Is transgenderism a mental illness? 🏳️‍⚧️ Yes or No?

@1Nicdar wasted emotions biden pardoned fauci for...

The fact that Anthony Fauci as well as many others are not sitting in prison right now just goes to show that justice in America is long gone.

@mrddmia THERW IS NOTHING TO DO. biden broadly pardoned Fauci for...

Again: Tony Fauci funded COVID’s birth in the Wuhan lab. He led the coverup. Millions died. Trillions lost. Years of human misery. Science-free mask mandates and social distancing that caused isolation, depression, and despair. Devastating learning loss, abuse, and neglect for poor kids--particularly black kids. Elderly patients died alone. Fauci lied to Congress. He colluded with Big Tech to illegally censor doctors, scientists, and others who dared to question him. Fauci pushed a mandate on an experimental vaccine (that didn't even stop the spread of COVID)--and made a fortune. Then he got his Biden pardon. Congress must make Fauci publicly testify. States and local DAs must explore criminal charges against Fauci. Fauci is a mass-murderer. He is a monster.. He belongs in prison for life.

@T0mmyTrip0d @mrddmia biden pardoned him for any crime during his employment.

@mrddmia YET HES STILL WALKING FREE......Doesnt mean shit if there is no accountability. tired of saying it

@mrddmia we do now know that only 20% of this country will keep self will under fear mongering pressure. (and maybe another 10% that felt they had no choice.) still, a vast majority became sheep. never forget.

@AnnCoulter the hubris, the gall, the stupidity, of people to conjecture on what they THINK trump and Netanyahu think. so sick of this.

Good summary of the disaster that is the Iran War <> Trump should've listened to JD Vance and never started this loser of a war. nytimes.com/2026/06/19/opi…

@TheAthletic @HenryBushnell WHO GIVES AN ACTUAL F**K? we care if a person can play well. that's it. just shut up. THIS is divisive. the left is so bereft of self-reflection they do not see this.

Half of the U.S. men’s national team is Black. After decades of overwhelmingly White teams, the makeup of this team is powerful, writes @HenryBushnell.

@KurtSchlichter any member of any species who has lost the instinct to procreate and insure the success of its species is - aberrant. period. tolerate if you choose but accept is no longer an option the very basis of lbgetc. is aberrant to our species.

Trans lies are the fraud

@rutgervanwerde @3YearLetterman @JRobbo the left can take it's 3 minute long attention span and scream for the next 60 days. anyone who has paid a teeny bit of attention to Trump knows the outcome will be total capitulation or total destruction.

@3YearLetterman @JRobbo You just got owned by Iran 😂😂😂trumpty dumpty signed the surrender yesterday in Versailles…😂😂😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

The British are in shambles that America now is the best in the world at soccer

@johnkonrad another barn burner John. Thank you. my fix? END ALL GRANTS WHICH WILL END ALL NGOs

When I was a kid, the Bronx was burning. My dad was a fireman who happened to be an Ivy League graduate. He told me it wasn’t the crackheads torching the city, whatever the news said. It was fraud. Let me explain how it worked…. John Doe buys a rundown apartment building for $100k. He pockets the redevelopment tax break, then sells it to Joe Doe for $250k. Joe pockets the tax break, then sells it to Jerry Doe for $500k. Rinse and repeat until the building is worth $5 million. The tax breaks are real. The money is not. Because the buyers are all family, the cash flows out of Swiss bank account 27852 and right back into 27852 after every sale. There’s a transaction cost, sure, but the tax breaks more than cover it. Then comes the payoff: they insure the building for $5 million and burn it down. The name for this was “Jewish Lightning.” The phrase stuck around not because the landlords were all Jewish, but because the stereotype hit a nerve in a city run by Jewish mayors from 1974 to 1989, the peak of the burning. Fair or not, the term stuck. So why was none of this investigated? NGO funding, of course. The NYPD union was powerful, and NYC detectives had sweeping investigative authority over almost everything. Except arson. Arson belonged to FDNY detectives. NGOs, routing money through union donations, stoked the rivalry between cops and firemen. Long story short, arson investigators got no funding and zero cooperation from the NYPD. No money for investigations means no arrests. Eventually the Bronx ran out of buildings to burn, and Giuliani drove the final nail into arson fraud’s coffin. But the lesson survived, and it’s the foundation of today’s fraud. The lesson was this: the actual value of the asset doesn’t matter. 👉What matters is the movement of money. Destruction is still very profitable. When the Baltimore bridge collapsed, the cleanup and rebuild were estimated at $1.7 billion, with the bridge reopening in 2028. The cost has since ballooned to $5.2 billion, and the wreckage still isn’t fully cleared. Money pours into demolition,, engineering, environmental review, project management, waste removal. But if the work doesn’t actually get done, the real expenses stay low. The money moves; the bridge doesn’t. And here’s the leap: you don’t have to destroy anything at all. You just have to not build it. Democrats allocate money to a government body, which hands it to a project manager, who hires consultants, who hire subcontractors, who hire more subcontractors, who funnel it back to Democrats, who allocate more money. The fewer the actual costs (labor, materials, equipment) the more of the flow you can capture. And if a taxpayer complains, you hire a PR firm and a few consultants to explain why costs keep exploding while nothing gets built. The easiest thing to blame is red tape. So why does red tape exist? Because destroying valuable property, while profitable, is too obviously unethical. Burning buildings gets you arrested, eventually. Not building gets you a ribbon-cutting and a press release. Here’s the deeper trap. Because our most valuable assets are fixed (houses, cars, index funds) we think of money as static. You have what you have. It grows over time, but it doesn’t flow. That’s exactly where the fraud lives: in the flow. The light bulb moment was realizing you don’t need to destroy physical property. You only need to destroy productivity. If labor and materials are never purchased while money pours in, the fraud works. You don’t have to build or destroy anything of value, just productivity. You just announce a project and start writing checks while throwing up enough red tape to block any real spending on labor and materials. This is basically why Congress handed @PeteButtigieg $1.2 trillion and our roads and bridges still suck five years later. They put up signs, traffic cones, and red tape, and little else. But there are a few residual problems. 1/2

@WilliamShatner joke? because it diminishes the meaning and history of traditional, overreaching days of commemoration. and no it is not even beginning to be important enough.

I’ve actually blocked a lot of them. And why is it a “joke”? Is it not important enough for you?