Timothy David Monks

She’s so obvious a product of Jewish/American social engineering🇺🇸🇮🇱

@Moments90s2000s totally agree, and the atmosphere and visuals of the sets is god tier. Cinematography too. Zemeckis through and fucking through

As a kid, I didn't mind the uncanny animation of The Polar Express, and I still don't. All that matters is that the film tells a heartwarming story.

More like… Disney: what? mainstream audiences actually prefer girl power movies with fit, feminine hotties in cute clothes instead of ethnically-ambiguous, queer-coded, body positive Steven Universe knock-offs? Abort! Abort! Sony: wish we knew that before we sold to Netflix

@CloutedMind Took you this long to realize?

my thought is that trump does not react to markets but rather he tries to engineer them he does everything to actually have markets on his side he tries to make market performance contingent on a US win in Iran, he creates a massive financial constituency that needs him to succeed which then generates the political capital to actually do it markets stop being a constraint and become an asset. The wall of worry becomes his tailwind, not his headwind. he's trying to flip market psychology from bearish on war uncertainty to pricing in american victory.... specifically on iran once markets see it that either way is a win for a US, which they hopefully are starting to now, with the way all the ships are going to the USA for oil... they will let him do whatever he wants and just climb up, and by climbing up, he can do whatever he wants a market that's long american dominance is a political constituency, it generates the public and institutional support to do what would otherwise be politically impossible

Dear Readers, Donald Trump is not like any other U.S. president. He may appear to some as temperamental, sharp in tone, and quick to anger, but at his core he is a highly intelligent and stubborn figure who knows exactly what he wants and how to achieve it. Behind the apparent chaos he creates lies a precise, calculating mind—one that weighs its steps with a balance of fire and cunning. Moreover, he can read his opponents as if they were open pages in a book. He is neither as the media portrays him nor as his opponents wish him to be. Aside from his bombastic rhetoric, he neither deceives nor is easily deceived. He detects attempts at maneuvering before they begin and rejects without accomodation any delay. This is why Iran has not been fortunate in his return to the White House, as it now faces a man who looks at it with an eye that distinguishes between rhetoric and substance, intentions and tactics. Yet Trump is not bloodthirsty. He opposes wars in principle and believes that limited sacrifice may be the price of saving an entire nation. He understands that if the ruling elite in Iran do not change their approach, their continued rule means the continued suffering of the people. He is also aware that nearly 90 million Iranians live between poverty and the lower middle class, aspiring to rebuild their country much as Germany did after World War II when it transformed itself into a strong and respected nation in which citizens enjoy stability and confidence in the future. From this perspective, Trump focuses on reviving the interests of people rather than regimes, viewing the change of ruling elites—despite its cost—as a gateway to comprehensive progress that benefits millions of Iranians. Iran is but one example among many. Trump does not forget, nor does he leave matters unresolved. He returns to complex files with a sharp focus that allows for calculated opportunities that other leaders missed or dismissed. The Syrian file, for instance, is not far from his attention. Those who believe they have bypassed or deceived Trump on this issue will soon discover they are facing a man who neither forgets nor retreats until he imposes his terms in full. It is also evident that he is steadily moving toward confronting authoritarian regimes, as his logic is rooted in breaking the closed cycles of oppression people suffer from within such systems. Venezuela was first, Iran is now, and perhaps Cuba will follow. At the same time, Trump is loyal and sincere to those who respect him or deal with him in good faith. Behind his harsh language is a practical individual who values work and achievement and seeks to accomplish something meaningful for his country that changes reality for the better. His blunt candor may be seen by some as a flaw, but he considers it a strength, as clarity for him is a virtue, not a shortcoming. For this reason, those who see him as merely an outlier among U.S. presidents do not truly understand him. He has established an approach that will endure as long as America seeks to renew its strength: Make America Great Again. This is not just a slogan, but a doctrine Donald J. Trump initiated—one that will persist and only grow stronger and more influential over time.

@draloneboy based

President Trump reportedly received a text message from Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre urging Trump to lower the temperature and “de-escalate” the rhetoric on Greenland. Trump fired back with a BRUTAL one-liner that ended the conversation. Here’s how the exchange went: STØRE: “Dear Mr. President, dear Donald: We believe we all should work to take this down and de-escalate.” TRUMP: “Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 wars plus, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.”

@EllieCohanim Get your community to stop voting for retards like Mamdani, then it's embarrassing.

The Jewish people have entered a new era since Oct. 7, 2023: we have witnessed antisemitism at levels perhaps not experienced since just prior to the Holocaust. Israel & the IDF have meanwhile revealed to the world their extraordinary fighting machine, placing Israel as the leading power in her region, and an even greater military power than the majority of Europe. The dynamic of the Jewish warrior standing up for his/her rights, clearly is hard for much of the world to swallow. But if there is any lesson that the Jewish world has learned post-Oct 7, it is exactly that Jews need to be prepared to fight, & fight hard. That is the true meaning of “Never Again” & anyone who is offended by that, well, cope harder!

@xenocosmography lmfao

Hoping our descendants never forget this is what it took to make the Anglosphere a multiplanetary civilization. x.com/captive_dreame…

La majorité des adultes sont morts à l'intérieur. Regarde un gamin de 5 ans. Il crée, il questionne tout, il n'a aucune limite mentale. Puis on l'envoie dans un système scolaire qui passe 15 ans à lui apprendre à se taire, s'asseoir, et régurgiter des réponses conformes. On détruit méthodiquement la pensée divergente et la créativité, les deux seules choses qui auront encore de la valeur à l'ère de l'IA. Le débat sur l'école se trompe de question. Le problème c'est pas les moyens, les profs ou les programmes. C'est le modèle lui-même. Une usine à conformité conçue au 19e siècle pour produire des ouvriers obéissants. Si on veut des sociétés prospères avec des gens qui créent et qui sont vivants, il faut pas "réformer" l'école. Il faut la refonder de zéro.

Pick a lane, ladies. You can be strong independent women with agency who make your own choices. In which case if you "end up" staggering drunk in a man's bed, we get to presume that you wanted to be there and any sex that happens is consensual. Or, you can be helpless little flowers buffeted not just by the winds of fate but by errant breezes, ending up staggering drunk in mens' beds through no choice of your own - passive victims of their bestial urges. I'm okay with that frame, too, but only if you give up voting and spending money without the permission of your father or husband. This Schrödinger's-pussy thing where you oscillate between infinite and zero agency at your whim? Not stable, and the contradictions are eventually going to come around to bite women on the ass. All women, not just the ones playing shitty games. Choose wisely.

@astro_greek he's so much like me

If it’s true that money cannot buy happiness, one confirming data point was Musk’s mood when he became the person with the most of it. He was not happy in the fall of 2021. When he flew to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico for a birthday party Kimbal had organized for his wife Christiana in October, where Grimes performed as DJ, he shut himself in his room and played Polytopia much of the time. “We were underneath this art piece with interactive lights dancing to beautiful music from Grimes,” Christiana says. “I thought about how our good fortune was thanks to Elon, but he just couldn’t let himself enjoy the moment.” As often happened, his mood swings and depression were manifest as stomach pains. He was throwing up and had intense heartburn. “Any great docs you’d recommend?” he texted when he cut short his visit to Cabo. “They don’t need to be famous or fancy offices.” I asked if he was all right. “I’m not super OK, tbh,” he responded. “I’ve been burning the candle at both ends with a flamethrower for a very long time. It has taken its toll. I was very ill this weekend.” A few weeks later, he opened up more. We spoke for more than two hours, much of it about the mental and physical scars he still had in 2021: From 2007 onwards, until maybe last year, it’s been nonstop pain. There’s a gun to your head, make Tesla work, pull a rabbit out of your hat, then pull another rabbit out of the hat. A stream of rabbits flying through the air. If the next rabbit does not come out, you’re dead. It takes a toll. You can’t be in a constant fight for survival, always in adrenaline mode, and not have it hurt you. But there’s something else I’ve found this year. It’s that fighting to survive keeps you going for quite a while. When you are no longer in survive-or-die mode, it’s not that easy to get motivated every day. This was an essential insight that Musk had about himself. When things were most dire, he got energized. It was the siege mentality from his South African childhood. But when he was not in survival-or-die mode, he felt unsettled. What should have been the good times were unnerving for him. It prompted him to launch surges, stir up dramas, throw himself into battles he could have bypassed, and bite off new endeavors. That Thanksgiving, his mother and sister flew to Austin to celebrate with him, his four older sons, X, and Grimes. Two of his cousins and his two half-sisters from his father’s second marriage were also there. “We needed to be with him because he gets lonely,” Maye says. “He loves to have family around and we have to do that for him, you know, because he’s under so much stress.” Source: Walter Isaacson's 'Elon Musk' (2023), chapter 67

Singapore’s Foreign Minister on why he cannot accept negotiating with Iran for safe passage of ships. Definitely worth listening to:

Food for thought. The mission was never negotiation. It was documentation. In the language of Sun Tzu, when peace is impossible, you must first appear to seek it, so that when force follows, it is seen not as aggression but inevitability. Sending JD Vance, a man whose reputation is peace, into a hopeless stalemate was not naïveté, but design. The U.S. didn’t go to talk. It went to witness. And when Tehran overturned the table with the camera rolling, the trap was complete: legitimacy secured, perception shaped, and the next move pre‑justified. Have a nice day.

@wdwpro1 The fact that anyone could care about the race of voice actors is telling how unserious they are

Without the original cast, this is a giant waste of money and art.

@kadsworld @JimShull i hope they do avatar is a way better environment and Shanghai Pirates tech is far better than what a trackless ride with today's tech could deliver

@JimShull You're really hung up on Zootopia. It's not healthy. They're going to stick with Avatar just to spite you.

Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue! and Hollywood Lounge, a quick-service dining counter have been issued demolition permits. This clearing is prior to building #Zootopia (most popular ride at #ShanghaiDisneyland) or #Avatar.

@JimShull brother it's avatar and maybe zootopia not hte other way around

If we want high culture and aristocratic art that reflects the aspirational traditions of Western civilization, we need to redesign the incentive structure and create a federal patronage ecosystem. The free market organizes around lowest common denominator slop.

Elon Musk framed education the way an engineer would. Musk: “What is education? You’re basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain. And it’s actually amazingly bad in conventional education.” If education is a download, America is running on dial-up in a fiber optic war. This isn’t an education problem. It’s a national security failure. The AI race will not be won by the country with the most compute. Compute can be bought. It will be won by the country that produces the most people capable of building, directing, and operating alongside the technology. That is an education output. And America’s output is broken. The system is optimized for an economy that peaked in 1985. Students spend twelve years memorizing content they will never apply, inside a structure that hasn’t been redesigned since the industrial era. Musk: “I think a lot of things people learn, there’s probably no point in learning them, because they never use them in the future.” Meanwhile, the pipeline that actually matters is either underfunded, understaffed, or missing entirely from most public schools. AI literacy. Applied math. Engineering. Critical reasoning. The skills that will separate functioning economies from collapsing ones. The country is spending trillions on education and producing graduates who are trained for jobs the algorithm will do better within five years of their graduation. That is not an investment. That is a subsidy for obsolescence. China is restructuring its entire technical education system around AI. Not as an elective. As the foundation. America is still debating standardized testing. Musk: “You’ve got someone standing up there kind of lecturing at people, and they’ve done the same lecture 20 years in a row, and they’re not very excited about it. And that lack of enthusiasm is conveyed to the students.” The format is dead. But the deeper failure is what’s inside the format. The question isn’t how we teach. It’s whether anything being taught maps to the economy that actually exists right now. An America First AI strategy doesn’t start with chips or tariffs or data centers. It starts with the pipeline that feeds them. Every semiconductor fab. Every AI lab. Every defense application of machine learning. Each one requires a human being who was trained to operate at that level. If the education system isn’t producing those people, the factories don’t matter. The labs don’t matter. The infrastructure is a monument to nothing. Post-scarcity economics. Energy independence. The technological edge that underwrites American power globally. None of it holds without a generation that was actually prepared for the world they’re walking into. Right now, we are preparing them for a world that no longer exists. The real America First policy isn’t protectionism. It’s building the smartest population on Earth. Deliberately. Urgently. Starting now. The country that upgrades its education pipeline first doesn’t just win the AI race. It wins everything that comes after.

Africans stuff the little slave children in bags. Notice the corrupt UN says nothing, they're too busy accusing Britain of "crimes against humanity" for the 17th century slave trade.

The CIA and the Mossad knew, from the very first second, that the two sides were in absolute contradiction. Not 10%, not 50%. 180 degrees. So why did Trump send JD Vance right into the middle of it? Two reasons. First: when the bomb drops, no one will be able to say the U.S. didn’t try. They’ll have in hand the minutes of the meeting, the photo of the handshake that didn’t happen, the return flight with empty hands. Diplomacy as legal cover for what comes next. Second, and smarter: Vance is against war. Well-known. So when a man like him comes back from Oman and says “there’s no conversation to be had,” no one in Washington can argue anymore that “all it took was sitting down at the table.” The toughest skeptic in the cabinet has become an eyewitness to the impossibility. The U.S. didn’t go to negotiate. They went to document. The Islamic Republic flipped the table, as it always does. This time, with the camera rolling. - @AllanHerzl

Restore Britain would allow free public speech without imprisonment