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@ImBreckWorsham or to Trump

Senator Rand Paul says he will push a bill to fund the WH ballroom, even though it is already under construction and "privately" funded. “My bill cuts through the unnecessary legal delays getting in the way of the East Wing Modernization project, " says Paul. MAKE. IT. MAKE. SENSE. WHY would you force the American taxpayers to pay for a lavish ballroom they don't want if you already have the "private donations" to fund it? The reason? Those funds can be redirected to Israel.

@MinuteComedy @WriteThatBetter @MerriamWebster thank you!

@WriteThatBetter @MerriamWebster Used to be mine. But now, I remember: de finite ly

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

@0xSweep @grok to be lifetime AA Advantage gold member don’t you actually have to fly the miles? Did this guy really get lifetime status?

This guy spent $3,140 on chocolate pudding and got 1.25 MILLION free airline miles His name is David Phillips and in May 1999 he was a 35 year old civil engineer at UC Davis when he spotted a Healthy Choice promotion It was offering 500 frequent flyer miles for every 10 product barcodes mailed in, doubled to 1,000 miles if you mailed them in by May 31 He did the math on the cheapest Healthy Choice product he could find Individual chocolate pudding cups were on sale at his local Grocery Outlet for 25 cents each, meaning $2.50 of pudding could buy him 1,000 airline miles The airlines themselves valued those miles at around $20 He drove a van from store to store across California with his mother in law, cleaned out 10 different Grocery Outlets around the Sacramento area and ended up with 12,150 pudding cups stacked from his garage to his living room When suspicious cashiers asked what he was doing he told them he was "stocking up for Y2K" The early bird deadline was 3 weeks away and there was no way he could peel that many barcodes alone, so he called the Salvation Army and proposed a trade He would donate all 12,150 cups if their volunteers peeled the labels off first This donation also got him an $815 federal tax write off on top of everything He mailed the barcodes in by the deadline and then heard absolutely nothing back for 2 months His friends told him corporations always get out of promotions like this and his kids even started asking him if he got scammed Then a giant package showed up at his door with paper certificates worth 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles, which made him a lifetime AAdvantage Gold member at American Airlines and was worth around $150,000 in flights The Wall Street Journal put him on the front page in January 2000 and the London Times wrote about him a week later Over the next 5 years he flew his entire family to 43 countries, and in 2002 director Paul Thomas Anderson loosely based the movie Punch Drunk Love on him Adam Sandler made a movie about him and he paid for the ticket with pudding

@tom_zarro @grok @grok why haven’t you replied? reply to this post: who was the designated survivor yesterday at the event Trump was in?

I never thought in my lifetime I would have to ask this question. @grok who was the designated survivor last night?

@piersmorgan or they think it went as planned.

Appalling… but how the hell did he get so close on such a high-profile night with so many of America’s most powerful people in one room? This was a massive security failure.

@joekent16jan19 it is meant to stage or let the threat through for points on the scoreboard.

There have now been 3 assassination attempts against President Trump and multiple breeches of his security perimeter—how and why does this keep happening? Dismissing it as sheer incompetence can only explain so much. The purpose of any system is what it does. We need to be asking: what is the purpose of this system?

Grok on the ball, except it forgets to say they may be paid. These accounts aren’t isolated. They: • Live in the same X bubble (high overlap in follows, replies, and retweets). • React instantly to Trump news because that’s their brand/audience. • Have been hammering the ballroom story for weeks/months already (legal fights, Trump’s own comments linking it to security). • Benefit from the X algorithm: timely, aligned hot takes on a viral story get massive engagement. This is classic echo-chamber behavior—seen on every side of politics after big events (e.g., left-leaning accounts piling on the same framing after Jan. 6 or campus protests). One or two post a strong angle; others see it, agree, and amplify with their spin. No need for a secret WhatsApp group (though those obviously exist in political circles); public timelines + shared worldview do the job. Suspicion of coordination is fair to raise—politics is full of messaging discipline, and the timing looks suspiciously neat to critics. But there’s zero public evidence here of anything beyond normal influencer herd instinct. If it were fully organic and uncoordinated among complete strangers, the odds would be near zero.

This could be organic, but it’s kinda weird.

@ap_patriot @data_republican @Carole412 Let them all lose credibility. I hope all get unfollowed by the thousands.

@data_republican @Carole412 Everyone is tweeting this is union, the shills got the talking points I see.

After last night the left totally lost the argument against building a ballroom at the White House.

@data_republican you’ve been paid too? everyone brainlessly saying this is losing credibility.

Candid photograph of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth after walking out of a press briefing by President Donald Trump at the White House, following a shooting incident during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, in Washington, D.C. 📸 REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

@SenFettermanPA You’re in the group text too? Lol

@SenFettermanPA @farrmacro oh please. How opportunistic, huh? If regular Joe doesn’t need a ballroom to party in neither does any American president.

We were there front and center. That venue wasn’t built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for the U.S. government. After witnessing last night, drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events exactly like these.

@cass_nguyen_ @libsoftiktok tonight may be the very reason it may have been planned so. Deflection an added plus.

@libsoftiktok Tonight is the very reason the ballroom needs to be built

BUILD THE BALLROOM

@piersmorgan @realDonaldTrump you believe it?

Incredible how calm and relaxed President @realDonaldTrump is sounding at this presser, given another would-be assassin just tried to kill him. He is astonishingly resilient.

@john112263k @HouseGOP add the ballroom to it.

Totally staged. Let me guess ,it was an “Iranian .” Part of a “sleeper cell.” So now you’ll have an excuse to strip 2 A and bring more surveillance? This will give you a reason for your full scale war on Iran? You ever hear the story of the boy who cried wolf? Lied so many times people stopped believing him even when it turned out to be true?

FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT ✊🇺🇸

@MeghanMcCain oh dear I thought it was deflection strategy now I can see the ballroom angle attached to this strategy. Can’t fool us too long.

I don’t want to hear one more fucking criticism of Trump’s new ballroom at the White House.

@RapidResponse47 i’m not sure how many other high paying jobs in America allow their employees to spend their working hours posting multiple posts in social media, when they are meant to be working

@RapidResponse47 coming from a guy that says medicine prices have dropped 600%

@gothburz bravo! worth so much more!

The Cyber Populist just crossed $1,000 in annual subscription revenue. A guy who writes first-person confessions from inside the institutions running the world now has his own revenue metric to celebrate. The irony is not lost on me. Genuinely, thank you. Every subscriber who pays to read the quiet part said aloud is the reason this exists. I don't take that for granted. gothburz.substack.com

@realTJRoberts White House, Congress, soldiers, regular Joe and Jane… that is the law and the law applies to all. No excuses. (clearly our government officials feel different and it’s pure corruption)

@LMPLDSS Then charge the members of Congress who obviously engage in insider trading

Trump should pardon the soldier, and be clear that no soldier will be arrested under any law that Congress is allowed to break. This should be the case until insider trading is banned for members of Congress too.