GIOS_Apollo11

@drewcrawford_ You are missing an analysis of the legal system, political climate, and fiscal dynamics.

"Brazil is the country of the future... and always will be." That line has been repeated for 80 years. It was funny for 79 of them. Here is what the country of the future looks like in 2026: 8th largest economy on earth. 7th by purchasing power. Largest net food exporter in the world. Feeds over a billion people. 108.2 million tonnes of soybeans exported in 2025. New record. $43.5 billion in revenue. 12% of the world's freshwater. Hydroelectric power at $30-50/MWh. Half the US cost. One-third of Europe. 87% renewable grid. The fuel is water and it's already paid for. 94% of global niobium. Second-largest reserves of rare earths. Second-largest reserves of graphite. America's largest alumina supplier. 50%+ of the territory still geologically unmapped. Pix processes 6-7 billion transactions per month. 170 million users. 93% of the adult population. More transactions than any instant payment system in the Western Hemisphere. Brazil is two full technology cycles ahead of the US in public financial infrastructure. Nubank: 110 million customers, $85 billion valuation, $895 million quarterly profit. Founded 13 years ago. Now the most valuable financial institution in Latin America. Brazilian cooperatives generated R$656 billion in 2022. Agricultural cooperatives alone: R$437 billion. The top ten hit R$157 billion in 2024. Coamo is the largest company in Paraná by net revenue. No Bloomberg screen. No analyst coverage. Invisible to international capital. Ibovespa started 2026 at 9.25x forward earnings. S&P 500 at 21x. Since then, 16 all-time records and +22% YTD. The gap is closing. Most American investors missed the move. Farmland in MATOPIBA: $5,200/hectare. Iowa: $49,400. Both grow soybeans. Brazil harvests twice per year. Private industrials in the South trading at 4-8x EBITDA. The identical company in Wisconsin trades at 10-15x. Same margins. Same machines. Same export customers. 1.8 million Brazilians in the United States built an invisible economy with zero institutional support. 18% self-employment rate in Massachusetts (3x the state average). Their children are graduating bilingual from American universities. They are the human infrastructure of the corridor. R$140 billion in railway concessions just launched. 9,000+ km of new track. The logistics gap (the only structural disadvantage left) is being closed. $565 million in US critical minerals investment committed before a bilateral deal exists. 54 countries attended Washington's minerals ministerial. China controls 90% of rare earth refining. Brazil holds the reserves that break that monopoly. 28 million hectares of degraded pastureland available for conversion. Soy yields growing 2.8% annually for 20 years (global average: 1.45%). 50+ GW of untapped hydroelectric capacity. The country of the future was always waiting for the infrastructure to connect its assets with the capital that would develop them. The infrastructure is being built right now. The prophecy wasn't wrong. It was early.

@BarrettsGoat Funny.

Just a reminder to pacers fans that we had the pacers on the ropes and would have swept them 9/10 times…

@GlobalReportNow Pacers

@AOC What level is your WoW character? Funny that you find time to play.

Why does this guy always talk like a World of Warcraft npc

@MrRedCap1840 So if I am walking down the street with my registered holstered gun, I can be killed just because it looked like I was directing traffic?

@GIOS_Apollo11 If you stand with invaders you are a domestic enemy.

alex preti died beacuse he decided invaders were more important than living a nice long life. I have 0 pity for him.

@sunnyright @elonmusk Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

“Charlie Kirk was asking for it by saying controversial things” “The National Guardsmen were asking for it by being present in DC when the left didn’t want them to be” “You can’t hurt a guy just because he’s engaging in armed obstruction of law enforcement” Same people.

@TheBrianinPGH That is a slippery slope.

@GIOS_Apollo11 I would imagine you are safe if you aren’t trying to impede law enforcement from doing their job.

I’ll lose as much sleep for Alex Preti as I did for Ashli Babbitt. None. Natural Selection happens. And it happens more frequently when you’re a brainwashed insurrectionist. #Minneapolisprotests

@rallynate Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

The same people that laughed when Charlie Kirk was executed are telling me to be outraged because a marxist was shot for protecting criminal illegal aliens. Not gonna happen.

@JackPosobiec Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

Armed, obstructing ICE operations as a member of an Anti-ICE Antifa group Alex Pretti wasn’t passively observing, he went out to engage and disrupt in the road, then interjected himself on an officer to ‘dearrest’ his comrade as his Antifa group trained

@Grand_Ole_Evan Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

Dude these people are not relatable. I am not outraged to see someone shot by ICE after roaming the streets with the express intent of agitating armed law enforcement. Even if they were shot in error. Because I wouldn’t do something so stupid in the first place.

@priyaee Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

Guess what—the tragic events that occurred yesterday could have been completely avoided had Pretti made one less dumb decision. But here’s what seems like the MOST plausible explanation as to what happened given all the footage and evidence that’s been released: — Pretti was impeding law enforcement operations then proceeded to resist arrest and get into a brawl with law enforcement while armed with a gun. — While Pretti was resisting arrest, officers noticed his weapon and screamed out that he had a gun. — Pretti was disarmed by one officer who takes his weapon. — Pretti reaches for his gun in his waistband, but grabs one of his secondary magazines since he was disarmed. — Pretti’s weapon negligently discharges as the officer who disarmed him walks away with the weapon (the Sig P320, Pretti’s weapon, is notorious for NDing). — This triggered the other agents to think that the man on the ground, Pretti, had begun shooting, so they neutralised the perceived threat. All happening within a matter of seconds… IF this is the case, and this seems like the most plausible theory to me, it was a tragic accident. Anyone who tells you this was an “execution” is simply trying to stoke the flames of these riots and they will get exactly what they want—more death and destruction.

@NickJFreitas Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

Man…soemone really needs to train cops on how to freeze time, and review everything in slow motion before deciding whether or not to shoot in a potentially life-threatening situation. Or…pyscho leftists could stop violently interfering with law enforcement doing their job.

@BlueBoxDave Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

“He was directing traffic.” Why was he directing traffic? He’s not a cop. It seems very likely he was “directing traffic,” in order to assist an organized mission to impede federal agents. That’s a felony. He likely chose to commit a felony while armed.

@LindseyGrahamSC Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

Very smart move by President Trump to send Tom Homan to Minnesota to find a way to ensure the worst of the worst and those criminals detained by state and local authorities in Minnesota that present a threat to the public are turned over to federal authorities, as required by U.S. law. Sanctuary city policies need to end. They entice future illegal immigration, they are gateways to massive fraud and eventually lead to a breakdown of law and order. I am glad to see Tom is back in the game because we need a new set of eyes and someone with his experience to help turn around the problems of the moment and the future. Tom is the right man to find a way to de-escalate the situation.

@KaliFontanilla Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

Up in the night researching and reading a couple Supreme Court cases about the use of deadly/excessive force by officers. Here is what I learned: Whether we personally think the shooting of the armed protester was justified or not. That is not how the law works. In a court of law, the officer would be evaluated under the Supreme Court’s 1989 ruling in Graham v Connor which established the “objective reasonableness” standard for use of force. That standard is very clear. Use of force is judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, in the heat of the moment. Not with hindsight. Not with slow-motion video. Not with information that only becomes available after the incident is over. Courts are instructed to consider: • the seriousness of the suspected crime • whether the suspect posed an immediate threat • whether the suspect was resisting or attempting to flee The court explicitly acknowledged that police officers are required to make split second decisions in tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving situations. The law does not demand perfection. It does not require officers to wait until they are harmed. And it does not allow public outrage or carefully selected footage to redefine legality after the fact. We can debate morality all day. The legal standard is settled. And I personally agree with it. It makes sense considering the nature of their jobs.

@TheBrancaShow Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

@MattWalshBlog Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

If you dress up in your militia costume, arm yourself, and then go out into the street with the express intent of interfering with law enforcement, and then fight back when they try to arrest you, and then you end up dead, you only have yourself to blame for that whole series of deliberate and insanely idiotic decisions.

@TheLobbyistGuy Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

If a conservative activist with a loaded gun attempted to physically impede Capitol Police officers on J6, the left would celebrate them being shot. And if they survived, they’d be labeled a terrorist—worse than Al Qaeda—and sentenced to 90 years in prison. Remember that.

@bumbadum14 Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

Every person lying about this scenario intentionally cuts out when pretti assaults an officer and is hand waving violently resisting arrest as if that is something that is normal.

@PamelaHensley22 Think about it. They killed a man who never drew on them. There is no honor in it, even by the rules of the Wild West. Grok says Pretti never drew his weapon. I am a Republican.

Alex Pretti actively participated in anti-ICE Signal chat groups to track and harass agents. He was looking for trouble. He found it.