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Joe Kent has obviously been criticized extensively for being a groyper, a conspiracy theorist, a leaker, a grifter, a geopolitics ignoramus but my question is what counterterrorism initiatives did he advance? I haven’t heard of anything useful that he did as head of the National Counterterrorism Center. What did he do to enhance counterterrorism if anything? Honestly seems like he was just positioning himself to be a groyper podcaster.
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@RachelBitecofer Hate to break it to you but Americans are not ready to kill each other. We meet like.. zero of the indicators for sustained conflict etc…but we like to duke it out online..
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Frankly if we live i think it’ll be hard to sell a house in the desert in 30 years.
Or in a southern swamp.
🦬 Dr Red Bison, PhD @redbison.bsky ♀🏳️🌈🌻@RedBison
Phoenix will likely be ~abandoned within ~30 yrs. Commercial jets can't liftoff >122ºF; summer asphalt now hits 170ºF = 3d degree burns in seconds. It's also running out of water bc of aquifer depletion and bc the Colorado River is dying from drought in the watershed and Rockies.
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@7Veritas4 NCTC is a largely ceremonial position under the DNI..everyone typically ignores them unless they have significant standing with the administration. Kent is just a narcissistic ego that was sidelined. You know that though because ur not dumb…but you hate Isreal..blah, blah, blah.
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@JDMCishere Bongino, the guy who would’ve blocked the investigation, is your credible source?
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@7Veritas4 Bongino already debunked Kent..and he, of course, has his own issues but he’s at least tracking with how the US government actually works ..
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@7Veritas4 How do you know there wasn’t a thorough investigation? Because the imaginings of podcasters told you so?
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Eighty billion dollars. Gone. To build a digital ghost town where legless cartoons stood around doing nothing, because Mark Zuckerberg looked at Facebook – a website people use to congratulate their guinea pig on its birthday – and thought: what this needs is a worse version of reality.
He was wrong. Historically, catastrophically, trouserlessly wrong.
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Meta announces they'll be shutting down the Metaverse, after pouring $80,000,000,000.00 into the project.
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Joe Kent is best characterized as a:
Groyper
Israel-obsessed conspiracy theorist
Fake terrorism expert
Geopolitics dunce
Leaker
Future right wing podcast guy
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@DBCooperTX Hmmm 🧐- the universe favors intelligent design. Nature is fallen..so yes - man is saved by the Christ who acted as an intercessor for mankind.
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Tired of never ending rage baiting.
Will Durant's “The Lessons of History.”
"Nature and history do not agree with our conceptions of good and bad; they define good as that which survives, and bad as that which goes under; and the universe has no prejudice in favor of Christ as against Genghis Khan."
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@Matt_Pinner Yes..to all but I have dip nails..which is my real nails but with a hard-coat exterior so they don’t break while gardening 🧑🌾 and look cute for different holidays etc..what? I’m a girl
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@Saganismm I’m not sure human nature is “naturally” kind. I think that’s the problem..we’re inherently selfish and have to be taught to be “good.”
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@readswithravi I lived the opposite, but it’s almost equally disrupting. I don’t hate everything around me - I savor it as life and I’m still living.
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This sentence by Dostoyevsky hits so hard.
“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”
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One thing (of many) that has bothered me about the Charlie Kirk narrative was his lack of "success" with women. Stay with me here.
Charlie Kirk was a 6'5" athlete, with a good intellect & normie-tier politics. Maybe not the best looking guy, but it's not like his cupboard was bare. Women like tall men of influence.
He basically spent about 7 years at a single guy hanging around exclusively college kids, becoming the most popular college influencer in America & building real power. The guy was friends with many powerful, rich, connected people.
He was the ideal man for legions of women. He should have had girls THROWING themselves at him. He should have had his pick of women. We should have heard stories about who Charlie Kirk was dating. Gossip. Rumors. Etc. He was a certified, bona-fide 20s-something American hero celebrity.
But that's not how it all went down. Instead, we heard there were no girlfriends. That he was a virgin until Erika (good for him if true, btw). No sexual encounters, whatsoever—which, if the rumors about many others in TPUSA are to be believed—is extremely anomalous! He was allegedly surrounded by all kinds of people who were sexually active—gay and straight alike!
TPUSA is filled with college coeds for its ambassadors. Smart girls, hot girls, motivated girls, calculating girls, politically connected girls, etc. Girls with multiple combinations of those traits. Yet Charlie spurned every single one? Couldn't land even one single girlfriend? Didn't have one fling? Never once got his groove on? Never once succumbed to the horde of women beating down his door?
And then, when he did get married at 27, it was to a 32-year old woman. No offense, ladies, but I was once in my 20s. And men in their mid 20s see women in their 30s as ancient. Old as the hills. Washed up. Why marry a 32-year old when you can snag a 22-year old? That's like a 10-year warranty! This is how the vast majority of men in their 20s think. And Charlie had no shortage of access to women in their early 20s.
It's weird. And on top of that, the woman he married hadn't been able to maintain a relationship herself into her 30s. That alone is a major red flag for men. Not to mention the many alleged lies she's told. IMO, she lies a lot. About everything. Surely Charlie would have picked up on that. It's really unattractive.
People say Charlie had no game. But the "Bob's Burgers" story where he straight up told her he wanted to date her, not hire her, was a total Chad move.
I'm sorry, but something about the Charlie Kirk story just isn't adding up for me. I honestly don't know what, but the math ain't mathing. Am I the only one?
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@JohnLeFevre Yeah - it’s all YouTube and interactive video games where they chat with each other
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My kids are 11 and 12.
I know this from direct experience, and also asking all their friends:
- no interest in movie theaters
- no interest in movies at home
- no interest in TV shows
Hollywood is dead.
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@akafaceUS That is weird ..i remember my grandparents had one but not my parents
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@Angry_Staffer Let’s be real..Americans love war…not in a sadistic way really but we love testing ourselves..a dash of hero complex thrown in - fighting for the oppressed when they’re not in our country using our resources of course..
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For Trump’s next trick, he’s going to make a much of MAGA supporters (who told you not to vote for Harris because she would send your kids to war) cheer for a land war in the Middle East.
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