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And now I’m here at the local pub, somewhere in England. It is almost full of people. Local people enjoying their local pub in this absolutely gorgeous village. Bought supplies earlier from the village shop across the road. The basket was a wicker basket and instead of carrier bags, the gentleman serving said ‘there are plenty of cardboard boxes under the counter. Take one of those’. Have you got any minced beef I asked? ‘You want the butcher next door’ he replied. A perfect pub, shop with local produce and butchers. A most pleasant Friday in England.

I have seen enough, and heard enough excuses. We cannot let Democrats sabotage this country. If nuking the filibuster is the only way to deliver on wildly popular legislation like the SAVE America Act, then we need to nuke the filibuster and start passing bills.

Muhammad was objectively a terrible person. He was a ped*phile, a m*rderer, and a false prophet on top of all that. Whereas Jesus lived a perfect life, Muhammad engaged in every sin imaginable. Anyone who says Christians should 'team up' with Islam have lost their minds.

@amuse Another example of multiculturalism not working out so well.

Democrats believe your money is their money. Listen to Philly Mayor Charelle Parker's disgust as she speaks to taxpayers explaining that they don't have the right to tell her how much they should pay in taxes...

Constitutional amendment proposal: No US federal tax dollars can be granted, paid or allocated to any non-governmental organization except in connection with the direct purchase of goods, equipment or services directly provided to and directly used by the federal government.

🚨 JUST IN: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is being praised nationwide for dropping this TRUTH on leftism and "progressivism" "Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence, and hence our form of government. It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government." "It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights." You NAILED IT, Justice Thomas! 🇺🇸 This guy is the true GOAT.

@TomSteyer @TomSteyer 's self-dealing Green Agenda is one of the big reasons why CA prices are so high. He made his billions in fossil fuel and now uses them to make our lives worse. #NoSteyer4CA

California: The man who brought you $8 gasoline would like you to vote for Steve Hilton.

@Knesix The Catholic Church of today would never elect a John Paul II. It has been completely corrupted with Imperial Globalism. I don't believe reform is possible. Tear it down and start over is the only option.

So the Pope met with David Axelrod last week. David Axelrod. Obama's campaign architect. A man who is not Catholic, has never met a pope before, and whose entire career has been engineering political narratives for the American left. And then, by pure coincidence, the Pope immediately started lobbing shots at the Trump administration, and three US Cardinals popped up on 60 Minutes doing the same thing. All organically, I'm sure. I'm a practicing Catholic. I need you to understand that part. But in my opinion, Trump has all the right to lash out at him. Maybe you'll disagree, but in the end, Trump talks like Trump. Water is wet. I'm talking about MY Church being run like a DNC satellite office but with a golden throne. This is the same Vatican that watched governments padlock churches during COVID and said nothing. That let Biden take communion while funding abortion and said nothing. That fired Bishop Strickland for defending actual Church doctrine. That removed Bishop Fernández in Puerto Rico for defending religious exemptions THE CATECHISM ITSELF supports. But somehow Trump is the threat to human dignity. Pope Francis was bad. Leo has turned out to be worse. Francis at least was vague about his politics. Leo went and hired the consulting firm. The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue. OF COURSE he won't even name who's doing the killing. But he'll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president. The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote.

Jesus never called for state control of the means of production but thanks for playing. I doubt government sucking Catholic Charities wee part of his agenda either.

@perplexity_ai 'Personal' is the tell. If it's truly local and personal, why does it need Perplexity's servers? Oh right it doesn't work offline. It's just a thin client on your Mac mining data for Perplexity's training loop. Personal means 'we know everything about you.'

@perplexity_ai "always on, local, personal, secure" a device that listens 24/7 across all your files and apps isn't a personal computer. it's the most intimate surveillance device ever sold. 💀

@perplexity_ai Another invasion of privacy and installation of a surveillance system - no thank you. I can manage my files perfectly well on my own.

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@perplexity_ai What a horrible invasion of privacy.

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Pope Leo XIV wasn’t elected...he was installed... a Trojan horse slipped into the Vatican by the same godless communist architects who’ve spent a century sharpening their knives for the Church’s throat. These ideological psychopaths don’t just dislike God; they pathologically loathe Him with the venom of a thousand inquisitions turned inward. To them, the State is the only deity that matters...omnipotent, omniscient, and mercilessly jealous. Any rival faith, any whisper of transcendence that dares suggest the individual soul owes allegiance to something higher than the Party, is branded heresy. Marx called religion the “opium of the people,” but that was just the polite opener; Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and their spiritual heirs turned it into a slaughterhouse manifesto. They bulldozed cathedrals, machine-gunned priests, and shipped nuns to the gulags not out of mere atheism, but because they understood the lethal threat a living faith poses to total control. Psychology 101 for tyrants: replace the cross with the hammer and sickle, demand worship of the collective, and watch free minds wither into obedient husks. And now? This pontiff...fresh off the assembly line of compromised cardinals and cultural-Marxist long-game operators...preaches “dialogue” and “peace” with Islam like a suicide note wrapped in incense. Why? Because the communist playbook never changes: flood the West with unassimilable hordes who reject every value the Church once defended, erode the foundations from within, and let the resulting chaos do the rest. It’s not mercy; it’s managed demolition. Gramsci’s “long march through the institutions” didn’t die with the Berlin Wall...it metastasized into the very soul of the hierarchy, turning shepherds into wolves in white robes. The pathology is textbook: a god-complex so deranged it demands the destruction of its ancient rival so the new god...omnipotent bureaucracy...can reign unchallenged. Christians are butchered by the thousands in Nigeria, churches burn, and this fraud on the papal throne wrings his hands and calls for more “coexistence.” Coexistence my ass. It’s capitulation dressed as holiness. The Church’s enemies have always known the score: break it from the inside, and the last firewall against state-worship crumbles. Leo XIV is Exhibit A in that obituary. Fuck the velvet gloves...the faithful (and even us atheists who value civilization over suicide pacts) see the blade coming. History doesn’t lie, and neither does this betrayal. The rot is deliberate. The war is spiritual, civilizational, and existential. And the communists? They’re laughing from the shadows, toasting the day the Vatican finally kneels before their altar of power. Not without calling this treason what it is: pure, unadulterated, soul-raping evil. 💀⚔️

Auditors just dropped BOMBSHELLs with @RepTimBurchett on why welfare fraud explodes so often. Agency bosses alllegedly told workers that checking eligibility "is not that big of a deal" and "low priority." Self-attestation remains the "bane of any auditor." During the pandemic, an international ring hit Maryland with 46,000 phony unemployment claims for $500 MILLION. SNAP error rates dropped from 9.1% to 3.5% the moment real oversight started. The systems are there, we have to see people getting HELD ACCOUNTABLE!

@GuntherEagleman @RepTimBurchett If I were Trump, I'd have Bessent announce that he's reassigning 10,000 IRS employees (out of 70,000) to help investigate and prosecute fraud in government programs (about a 40% increase in staff)

I have been pretty emphatic the last few days in condemning Pope Leo’s foray into American politics. My detractors are having fun stating that I am doing this out of allegiance to President Trump and that I have chosen Trump over God. WRONG. The biggest reason by far why I am so vocal on this is the damage Pope Leo is doing to the Catholic Church in the USA. I believe Pope Leo has done more to harm US Catholicism in just a few days than any other Pope of the past 100 years (even Francis). Pope Leo is literally causing orthodox, faithful American Catholics to flee the Church out of disgust over his leftwing politicization and his kowtowing to Islam. Moreover, he has opened the door for boundless criticism against Catholicism from certain Protestant denominations and churches, causing untold harm to Christian ecumenism in the USA. It is precisely because I care so much about the Church that Jesus founded in AD 33 that I oppose the havoc Pope Leo has unleashed in the US Church. (And yes, under Church doctrine and as a Catholic, I am fully entitled to hold such beliefs and express them.)

Do no ID, no update of voter rolls, automatic mail-in ballots to everyone, ballot drop-boxes and "ballot harvesting" make our elections more secure or less secure? And if fraud occurs under such rules, is it identifiable as such? Perhaps the purpose of the ridiculously unscrupulous voting rules is to make fraud impossible to prove. You are not a reasonable person if you don't understand this.

UAE executed while many in the west called it impossible. The UAE had no nuclear engineers. No regulator. No nuclear history. In 2009, it decided to build four nuclear reactors anyway. By 2024, all four were operating. Delivered on time, on budget, and cleaner than almost anything else on the grid. While many in the West called it impossible, the UAE built it. 5,600 MW of capacity. About 25% of national electricity. So what made Barakah work, and why is the world struggling to replicate it: First, they built in sequence. Units 1 through 4 were staggered roughly a year apart. The same workforce moved from one unit to the next, carrying forward lessons in real time. By the fourth unit, construction and commissioning timelines had improved dramatically. This is what an industrial learning curve looks like. Most countries build reactors as isolated projects spaced years apart, which resets that curve every time. Second, they chose a single, experienced vendor and maintained clear accountability. KEPCO brought a standardized, proven design. ENEC, as the national entity, retained control and continuity. No fragmented contracting, no diffusion of responsibility. Third, they built the regulator before the reactors. FANR was established years ahead of construction. Hundreds of inspections and extensive international reviews ensured that safety was embedded from the start, not layered on later. This is a country like Australia built on hydrocarbons, yet choosing reliable baseload power for domestic stability. It wasn't driven by ideology. It was driven by the fact that they needed reliable power and made a decision to get it. Compare that with ongoing debates in the UK around Hinkley Point C, or cost overruns at Vogtle in the US. In the same period, the UAE moved from zero to 5.6 GW of nuclear capacity in just over a decade. The gap is not technological. It comes down to political will, institutional clarity, and an industrial approach to delivery. Nuclear does not have to be slow. Barakah shows what is possible. The real question why Australia cannot replicate this, given that we already have nuclear experience?