Richard Payne

Despite Ken Paxton’s claims he essentially had crooks conspiring against him in his office just like Pres.Trump, Paxton ADMITTED in Court to all the facts & law specified against him in the pleadings by the whistleblowers he fired and retaliated against. That wasn’t at all like Pres. Trump’s situation. Judge Catherine Mauzy found on April 4, 2025[Case # D-1-GN-20-006861, TX 250th Judicial District Court] just as Paxton admitted, that he retaliated against & fired his top employees for reporting his corruption despite his long, loud claims to the contrary outside of court. Otherwise he’d have had to give a deposition under oath about specifics. Paxton learned from Bill Clinton that with all Paxton had to hide, he could not afford to allow anyone to ever ask him questions under oath. The trial judge accepted his in-court general admissions & issued judgment based on those admissions for a $6.6 MILLION judgment against Paxton. Right after court, for the benefit of his blind followers who would never read the transcript nor believe media reports, Paxton said publicly it was “a ridiculous judgment that is not based on the facts or the law” & that he would appeal the outrageous judgment. BUT IT WAS BASED ON FACTS & LAW PAXTON HAD JUST ADMITTED IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE THAT DAY! On May 2, 2025, Paxton appealed the judgment while he continued to publicly protest the unfair judgment he said he would definitely get overturned & supporters & legislators did not need to worry. If he had not appealed in May, the judgment would’ve become final & been presented to the Texas legislature for payment before they recessed at the end of May 2025 & that would’ve made all kinds of news with legislators up in arms against Paxton. Paxton assured them he’d get it reversed on appeal. After the Texas legislature adjourned at the end of May 2025 (not to reconvene until January 2027 AFTER the U.S.Senate race is over), Paxton quietly filed to dismiss his appeal on July 3, 2025 [#15-25-00085-CV, TX 15th Court of Appeals], since he really had nothing to appeal because he had admitted everything. The judgment is now final. Texas taxpayers are now stuck with the $6.6 million bill for the wrongs Paxton did to innocent attorneys in his office who tried to stop his corruption. Interest runs on the judgment at 7.5%. You don’t have to believe me. But don’t believe what he says either. Look up the case for yourself; look up his comments throughout. Look what he did and what and when he filed things including his dismissal of the appeal. Very cunning, but extremely dishonest. It sure sounds like Paxton is STILL slandering those he retaliated against though they are sincere, conservative, fine, ethical people. Look them up. Talk to them. They’re the kind of people conservatives should want working there. Though I appreciate the conservative lawsuits his assistant AGs have filed & continue to file, it’s the norm for Paxton to play the victim of the chaos his own lies & unethical behavior create. That lawsuit against him, though, is only the tip of the iceberg of Paxton dishonesty. At CPAC Paxton thanked God for getting him through “all that” impeachment, but it may have helped that he had mega-wealthy donors who made clear they would pay millions to defeat any state senator who voted to remove him during impeachment, & also we had a very poor, moderate Speaker of the House who handled it terribly. Another help to Paxton getting through “all that,” in my opinion, has been that he can speak dishonestly with a straight face more effectively than most anyone I’ve ever met, & I’ve seen some amazing liars in court & in Congress. When I ran against Paxton for AG in 2022, I hoped to beat him and end his corruption back then as well as have the assistant AG’s making sure all our counties were going to have fair elections in 2024. The AG doesn’t need criminal jurisdiction to file civil suits to keep elections clean. The lies he spread about me were ridiculous and east Texans knew that. Since I was an Eagle Scout, I’ve always stood against corruption, even when it made friends mad. Now our Republican Senate primary is down to 2 candidates. Though Senator John Cornyn & I have had differences at times & even made each other angry, he’s never lied to me_ not ever! In this primary runoff, I’ll be voting for John Cornyn. Voting for lies and corruption is not a choice.

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Berkshire Hathaway is underperforming the S&P 500 by more than -30% over the last year. Someone needs to remind Warren Buffett that time in the market beats timing the market.

In 2003, Elon Musk gave a 46-min masterclass at Stanford. His framework: - The feature nobody cared about became PayPal - "Best idea wins" - Why he never went back to school 12 lessons:

🚨 WOW! President Trump is sounding the alarm, America can’t withstand more horrible decisions from the Supreme Court They need to strike down birthright citizenship for illegals. “THEY SHOULD USE THEIR POWERS OF COMMON SENSE FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY.” “They failed miserably on Tariffs, needlessly costing the USA Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in potential rebates for the benefit haters and scammers.” “Why??? Don’t do it again! The Country can only withstand so many bad decisions from a Court that just doesn’t seem to care.”

$NVDA is building an AI empire across the stack, and the investments tell the story. You’ve got names like $INTC and $SNPS on the semiconductor side, $LITE, $COHR, and $MRVL in optical and networking, $CRWV in GPU cloud, $NOK in telecom infrastructure, and even $LLY and $RXRX in AI-driven drug discovery. That’s what makes this bigger than one product cycle. Nvidia isn’t just selling picks and shovels. It’s buying exposure to the roads, rails, and power grid around the AI gold rush. That’s how real leaders extend. They stop acting like a company with one product and start acting like a platform with stakes in the whole ecosystem.

Trump knows Shannon Bream of Fox, even with her religious books we all admire, is a Trump hater. She tries to pretend otherwise but you can read her as good as you can read her books. Fox has a group of Trump haters, Jessica Tarlov, Marie Harff, Gillian Turner, Jennifer Griffin, Megyn Hays and Shannon Bream. Jury still out on Bret Baier.

@bitchuneedsoap Catholic charities needs to be put out of business.

Catholic Charities Fort Worth made $289M moving refugees into Texas. When Trump froze their funding for billing violations, they sued the federal government within weeks. And won $47M back. Let that sink in. A "charity" that's 93% taxpayer funded sued the government when the money stopped. 5,000+ refugees in 2023. $270M in federal grants. $32M → $289M (3 years). JD Vance was right: "Are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or their bottom line?"

🚨As some SCOTUS Justices seem unconvinced by the threat of birthright citizenship, President Trump is making it clear it should end. Momentum is building. As we’ve said repeatedly, citizenship is a privilege that requires allegiance, not a loophole to exploit. The current interpretation undermines its purpose. Read our breakdown of the threat of birthright citizenship and our amicus brief supporting President Trump’s effort to end it👇

Cathie Wood bought ~$14M of $TSLA today

NVDA is up about 100% over the past year. Fun fact: its forward P/E is now roughly the same as a year ago, around 20.

France moved 129 tonnes of gold from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to Paris between July 2025 and January 2026. Every ounce of French sovereign gold is now stored on French soil. The Banque de France sold non-standard legacy bars held in New York at record prices and simultaneously purchased equivalent compliant bars in Europe, booking a capital gain of 12.8 billion euros without changing its total reserves of 2,437 tonnes by a single gram. The transaction was described as operational, not political. But the outcome is political regardless of the motive: a founding NATO ally has removed 100 percent of its gold from American custody. Germany did this between 2013 and 2017. Now France. The pattern is consistent: Western central banks are bringing their gold home from New York, quietly, without fanfare, while publicly maintaining that the moves are routine. Nobody repatriates 129 tonnes of sovereign metal across an ocean because the storage fees were inconvenient. They do it because the world that made New York the safest vault on earth is the same world that froze $300 billion in Russian reserves in 2022, and every central bank on the planet watched. China has purchased gold for 16 consecutive months. February 2026 was the latest: one tonne, modest, disciplined, bringing total reserves to 2,308 tonnes valued at $387.6 billion, approximately 10 percent of total foreign exchange reserves. China has simultaneously reduced its US Treasury holdings by $638 billion. The buying is not speculative. It is architectural. Every tonne purchased and every Treasury sold moves the centre of gravity of China’s reserve portfolio from an asset that can be frozen to an asset that cannot. India repatriated 274 tonnes to domestic vaults, bringing 66 percent of its gold home. It reduced US Treasury holdings by 18 percent in 2025. Poland added 20 tonnes in February alone and is targeting 700 tonnes total. Uzbekistan added 8 tonnes. The structural bid from central banks that watched the 2022 freeze is running at 863 tonnes per year with no sign of slowing. Then there are the sellers. Russia sold 6 tonnes in February and approximately 15 tonnes in the first two months of 2026, the largest drawdown since 2002. The country that triggered the global repatriation movement by getting its reserves frozen is now selling gold to fund the war deficit that the freeze was supposed to prevent. Turkey sold 8 tonnes in February and utilised approximately 50 tonnes in March for lira defence and liquidity operations. The irony is precise: the war that proves gold’s value as a sanctions-proof reserve is simultaneously forcing the countries most exposed to sanctions to liquidate their gold to survive the war’s economic consequences. The net global position remains positive. Central banks added 19 tonnes in February despite Russia and Turkey selling. The buyers outweigh the sellers. But the composition tells the story. The buyers are countries building sovereignty: China, India, Poland, Uzbekistan. The sellers are countries defending survival: Russia funding a war, Turkey defending a currency. And the repatriators are countries hedging trust: France and Germany bringing metal home from the vault of the ally whose financial weapons they watched deployed in 2022. Gold is at $4,676 tonight and down 8 percent from its January high. The correction is the trade. The repatriation is the structure. And the structure says that the world’s central banks, collectively, have decided that the safest place for sovereign gold is no longer New York. It is home.

@Shadow007US They both need to RECUSE themselves from the birthright citizenship case Immediately

@Shadow007US I ALWAYS knew they were corrupt...

🚨 BREAKING: 🚨 Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett were reportedly spotted in Washington, DC DINING WITH the leaders and lawyers of prominent immigrant and civil rights organizations, including parties to the "birthright citizenship" case that is currently being argued before the high court. This comes as speculation has been growing that Roberts and ACB may be personally and financially compromised and working at the behest of the anti-Trump weaponized judiciary. The federal judiciary is working to actively undermine the will of the American people by SABOTAGING the agenda of the President that 80+ million of us elected. It is seriously time for President Trump to start DISOBEYING court orders because these radical left activists posing as judges have gone ROGUE and are engaging in ILLEGAL AND TREASONOUS ACTS with no means of being held accountable. He has an army... THEY don't!

@ScottforFlorida Thank you Mr. Means Testing.

If we need to blow up the filibuster to get President Trump’s America-first agenda done, then let’s do it NOW. The future of our country is at stake!

@JoshHall2024 Impeach them & remove them from office.

🚨 BREAKING: 🚨 Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett were reportedly spotted in Washington, DC DINING WITH the leaders and lawyers of prominent immigrant and civil rights organizations, including parties to the "birthright citizenship" case that is currently being argued before the high court. This comes as speculation has been growing that Roberts and ACB may be personally and financially compromised and working at the behest of the anti-Trump weaponized judiciary. The federal judiciary is working to actively undermine the will of the American people by SABOTAGING the agenda of the President that 80+ million of us elected. It is seriously time for President Trump to start DISOBEYING court orders because these radical left activists posing as judges have gone ROGUE and are engaging in ILLEGAL AND TREASONOUS ACTS with no means of being held accountable. He has an army... THEY don't!

@DadePhelan Just negotiation.

On Easter Sunday, the holiest day in Christianity, the President of the United States posted an expletive-laced war threat and signed it “Praise be to Allah.” Easter is about resurrection, hope & grace. This was none any of that. You do not have to oppose strength in foreign policy to recognize that profanity and mockery on Easter morning is beneath the office and beneath us as a people of faith. Praying for a return to wisdom and discernment in our national leadership. #EasterHope

Oracle executives are getting DEATH THREATS after that 6 AM email massacre and Larry Ellison just hired Blackwater-level private security 30,000 workers butchered via automated email while Oracle posts $6.13 BILLION in quarterly profits I'm hearing Oracle leadership is now working from "undisclosed locations" because former employees are showing up at headquarters with printed copies of their termination emails Sources saying the Redwood City campus looks like a military compound. Armed guards checking IDs. Parking garage access restricted. Executive floor completely locked down. Oracle spent more on executive protection this quarter than they'll pay in severance to 30,000 families The same company that automates human termination emails can't automate executive safety Larry Ellison's yacht has three security boats following it. Safra Catz hasn't been photographed in public since the bloodbath. Meanwhile former Oracle workers are posting TikToks outside Ellison's $300 million Malibu compound One terminated engineer drove 800 miles from Austin just to stand at the gate with a sign reading "I BUILT YOUR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR 12 YEARS" Oracle's AI algorithms can eliminate 30,000 jobs in milliseconds but can't predict when desperate people stop playing by corporate rules If you're still at Oracle, your executives are literally hiding from you behind armed security while counting the money they made from destroying your career The revolution isn't coming through the front door anymore. It's coming through the fucking walls.

The Supreme Court will torch its legitimacy if/when it hands out birthright citizenship to Chinese birth tourists. No question. And legitimacy is all the Court has. Let’s hope the Republican justices value our nation’s sovereignty more than their own vanity. I’m not hopeful.