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Sam Gilson

@SamGilson13

Ex-everything I was taught and told in college. Ex-Democrat. Ex-Establishment Republican. Ex-Ex-Christian.

Rural U.S., thank God Sumali Ağustos 2022
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@ChiefEngineerCE Mass immigration legal or illegal is the same people that were thrilled and enriched by slavery looking for a morally veneered way to recreate slavery. Their justifications for mass immigration are rewrites of 19th century racism.
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Chief_Engineer@ChiefEngineerCE·
Looking to move to the country where politicians are advocating for people like me to get benefits and priority over their own citizens.
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Sam Gilson
Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@TerrySparrow4 Your arrogance and stupidity are marvels to behold. Your leaders can't even scrape up a navy as useful as South Korea's. Your country's per capita GDP is less than the poorest, hillbilly state in the US. Your hard men of WW2 fought and died for nothing.
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Terry Sparrow
Terry Sparrow@TerrySparrow4·
The adults are in the room 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇩🇪, and it’s quite refreshing to see. When you consider their political leanings are not the same, but they understand the urgency at hand. It reminds me of the clear up after a petulant toddler has wrecked a playgroup.
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@redsteeze @RobProvince Yeah, they're not giving up. Too much cash and power at stake. Maintenance of a functional society, economy, and civilization is getting harder every day.
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@texasdemocrats Good for him. Why do you hate people that work for a living and love people who cheat, steal, and lie?
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Texas Democrats@texasdemocrats·
It's not just Houston, it’s happening in Dallas too. Greg Abbott is blackmailing cities across Texas threatening to cut funding and force local leaders to follow his immigration agenda. Law enforcement leaders have warned: when people are afraid to report crimes, everyone is less safe. Texans deserve leadership that builds trust, not fear. dallasnews.com/news/immigrati…
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@nmlinguaphile Ouch. That hits home. I can't begin to even quantify my disappointment in my state's politicians and its @&^&$! churches. They're anti-American; that's a good start.
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Sam Gilson
Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@keyboardchief @FreightAlley Lol. Cite a source. Statista, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), World Bank, say otherwise. The original post said "worldwide". You're evading the truth with local variations.
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@keyboardchief @FreightAlley Logistics is typically 10-11% of the cost of doing business, regardless of industry. The math is not hard. (Transfer payments are not GDP, either.)
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Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
People don't understand how obscenely large the logistics industry is. Worldwide logistics revenue is $11 trillion per year.
Object Zero@Object_Zero_

People don’t really understand how obscenely large the oil and gas industry actually is. Worldwide oil revenue is $4 trillion per year. Every year the oil industry collects more money than the US government. Not the US military, the entire US government. Every year the oil industry allocates $850 billion of capex to new projects, and those new projects increase the oil supply by about 1.8%. It costs half a trillion dollar a year, for every 1% of growth. Meanwhile, people think the $500 billion datacenter buildout is “unprecedented”. A year with $500 billion capex means a downturn and mass layoffs in the oil industry. It’s just a different scale. The same industry sells $2 trillion a year of gas. So $6 Trillion of revenue in 2025, and projected $8 trillion of revenue for 2026. There is a reason that the world has multiple “petrostates” with huge sovereign wealth funds, but no other type of mono-economy country with giant trillion dollar liquid funds. Many countries, such as Saudi Arabia produce oil and gas at 70% profit margins. So huge volumes and huge margins. That’s how you build multiple multitrillion dollar sovereign wealth funds that own a meaningful chunk of all global equities. These countries make huge equity returns in times of stability and huge oil returns in times of volatility. My point here, is that the datacenter capex can go much higher. It’s currently $6-700 billion, but for a major boom it could be double this. And the “oh noe! We need lots more datacenter plumbers!” is just a complete joke, when there’s an industry 10X bigger that literally does nothing but lay pipes everywhere. Embarrassing ignorance. Hyperscalers are still only using cashflow, and still each sitting on $100 billion cash reserves. They need to get off the pot and go and build some stuff, because it’s difficult to take them seriously watching them flap about in “hardware” aka heavy industry, for their fourth year.

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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
Having spent my entire life in railway logistics, my last 20 years in business development, and knowing that ALL of the value of a natural resource play or a factory is contingent upon its logistics cost, because never are they next door to their customers, you'd think I would be adept at explaining to potential customers and clients that logistics has to be their number one concern. But I'm not any good at it. They refuse to listen. They insist on doing stupid things like building their new rail-served factory with access to only one Class I, then ask me what they can do when the Class I triples their rate. They spend $100 million on core drilling and permitting for their new mine in the middle of nowhere Nevada and only then say, "Hey, what's it going to cost to get our refined metal to market in Ohio? OMG! That's too much!" They do not understand that trucking prices are volatile, and if you beat them down on price in a down market they might not be there in the up market. I'm going to go to my grave frustrated and disappointed.
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@messyventura So why doesn't the socialist utopia of Minnesota have state liquor and grocery stores if they're so great? Y'all progressives control the state government! Yet you've done nothing. C'mon! Do it!
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
So this is the breakdown of my active follower base by location. I wonder what I've done to attract ~1,200 Nigerians. I'm sure that's totally organic.
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@CynicalPublius Transit systems are gonna be tried another 39 times minimum before we concede that all they do is eat dollars and poop out crime.
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Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
I watched the original Jurassic Park years and years ago. Thought it was superb sci-fi. Never watched the sequels. Until now. I’ve been in planes a lot the past few days and have been watching them. Plot query: How many people have to be killed by rampaging escaped dinosaurs before somebody decides the whole thing is a bad idea?
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@Lisa9Sophia I feel bad for Australians that do not support this depraved and evil government and media. Those that do support or excuse this I hope go to Hell.
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Lisa@Lisa9Sophia·
If true, this is the most significant corruption scandal in Australian history Afghan villagers are PAID to testify against war hero Ben Roberts-Smith The villagers are then coached The government in return offers the villagers ASYLUM - which presumably is like winning the lotto - given it involves free housing, a pension and free medical funded by taxpayers for life…
Senator Gerard Rennick@S_GerardRennick

Australian special forces soldier reveals that a major Australian news network paid Afghan villagers to testify against Ben Roberts-Smith Witnesses say that these villagers were coached and ultimately given asylum status in Australia

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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
My family (three sisters, Mom, Dad) were driving somewhere. My father had the car radio on the local classical music station in Denver. The music abruptly stopped. The announcer read a brief announcement. The music restarted with something doleful. My father turned the radio off. My parents were Republicans, didn't and wouldn't vote for a Democrat. They were extremely upset. My father was visibly angry. They didn't say much. I was 5. I didn't know what this meant. I remember exactly where we were and the color of the light. It was a sunny day in Denver, and cool. We were driving by Harvey Park.
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Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson·
Somebody on X recently asked about personal experiences when JFK was assassinated. That got me thinking. I remember. We were living in Oslo, Norway, my dad was a captain in the USAF and worked for NATO at the Kolsas Mountain complex. My parents were down the street visiting neighbors. We lived in a Norwegian town with only one other American family. I was watching my younger brother and sister. A neighbor came over to console us. I was 8. That’s me in the photo attached from roughly the same time. Our neighbor, a Norwegian man. was crying. I’d never ever thought of news or politics until that day. I called my parents and they came home immediately. It changed me forever. It was that day that I realized that somebody other than my immediate family was important. Years later, I really dug into that day to know what happened. How about you? Were you alive? What do you remember?
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
Exactly. My father was a combat engineer company commander from Normandy Day 2 through the Ardennes through Remagen. Then returned to West Germany, 24 hours after Korea started, to mine bridges and tunnels to delay the anticipated Soviet invasion. As you point out, he was ready to die in both wars, even though no one shot at him in the latter.
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
I get slightly mad at veterans who feel it is unfair that they call themselves veterans because they never served in a combat zone. I always tell them: "You raised your right hand. You were ready to die for your country. You're a veteran." This is particularly true for Cold War vets who stared down the Soviets. There should be an official Cold War Service Medal.
Happy Captain@EODHappyCaptain

Social media proves that No one gatekeeps being a veteran, like a veteran It seems online there is always a reason you’re not part of the club. You don’t have the right award. You didn’t see combat. You saw the wrong type of combat For what it’s worth, I’m proud of all of you.

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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@mattvanswol It could easily have been much worse. Without Trump, it would have been.
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
On a scale of 1-10… How would you rate the current performance of the GOP in Congress?
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@unseen1_unseen The optimist says, "Enjoy this, things could be worse." So I enjoyed, and things got worse.
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Sam Gilson@SamGilson13·
@Osint613 He's right. The Pope isn't. I'm a conservative Catholic. Not a Communist Community Organizer Catholic.
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Open Source Intel@Osint613·
REPORTER: Iran is going to execute four more protesters, including the first woman protester. What do you tell Iran? TRUMP: Tell that to the Pope
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UpperDecker@BullpenCop1·
@SamGilson13 @BillMelugin_ I'm not sure about the other ones, but Fitzpatrick has been like this forever. His district went blue, so he did too. Cynical job security.
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Anas Alhajji
Anas Alhajji@anasalhajji·
🔥A MUST READ:🔥🔥🔥 This is a fascinating development in the oil markets! Iraq has been unable to export its crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz due to ongoing disruptions. The country's only current crude export route is the pipeline through Turkey, which is running at roughly 200 kb/d. To work around this, Iraq has started exporting fuel oil via hundreds of tanker trucks. The route takes them across the western Iraqi desert, into Syria, and all the way to the Mediterranean port of Banyas (see black arrow in the map below). The tanker Asahi Princess recently delivered a fuel oil cargo to Syria from Saudi Arabia. It is scheduled to load Iraqi fuel oil today and is expected to depart the port on Friday or Saturday. This represents approximately 700,000 barrels of fuel oil. What's particularly noteworthy is that almost all analysts are not yet factoring this volume into their supply-demand balances. It is small, but continues.
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