Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป

26.6K posts

Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป banner
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป

Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป

@proteusguy

Founder, CTO - Biggest Lab https://t.co/Hh37kjgAQk - Decentralizing all the things! Chief Systems Architect - Proteus Technologies & ProteusOps

Bangkok ๅŠ ๅ…ฅๆ—ถ้—ด AฤŸustos 2007
2.6K ๅ…ณๆณจ1.9K ็ฒ‰ไธ
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives
๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸšจBREAKING: CBS is being called to lose their license by voters after they got caught editing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem response: Edited out "He was a known human smuggler MS-13 gang member, who was a wife beater and solicited nu*de photos from minorsโ€
English
168
8.7K
31.1K
845.5K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
John ษ… Konrad V
John ษ… Konrad V@johnkonradยท
The Dutch have an extraordinary maritime industry.. ports, technology, engineering, education, etc And yet their navy is so weak & feeble it should be a national embarrassment. But instead of treating that weakness with shame, they celebrate & honor it ๐Ÿคก
English
64
214
1.9K
49.2K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป@proteusguyยท
Half way through reading this my reaction was "scorched earth" on these criminals trying to extort the people who gave them an amazing opportunity and were betrayed for their troubles. Make sure the world knows what they are and what they did so they'll never work in the space again.
English
0
0
0
35
Bill Ackman
Bill Ackman@BillAckmanยท
I am reaching out to the @X community for advice with the likely risk of sharing TMI. I have been sufficiently upset about the whole matter that I have lost sleep thinking about it and I am hoping that this post will enable me to get this matter off my chest. By way of background, I started a family office called TABLE about 15 years ago and hired a friend who had previously managed a family office, and years earlier, had been my personal accountant. She is someone that I trusted implicitly and consider to be a good person. The office started small, but over the last decade, the number of personnel and the cost of the office grew massively. The growth was entirely on the operational side as the investment team has remained tiny. While my investment portfolio grew substantially, the investments I had made were almost entirely passive and TABLE simply needed to account for them and meet capital calls as they came in. While TABLE purchased additional software and other systems that were supposed to improve productivity, the team kept increasing in size at a rapid rate, and the expenses continued to grow even faster. While I would periodically question the growing expenses and high staff turnover, I stayed uninvolved with the office other than a once-a-year meeting when I briefly reviewed the operations and the financials and determined bonus compensation for the President and the CFO. I spent no time with any of the other employees or the operations. The whole idea behind TABLE was that it would handle everything other than my day job so that I would have more time for my job and my family. Over the last six years, expenses ballooned even further, employee turnover accelerated, and I became concerned that all was not well at TABLE. It was time for me to take a look at what was going on. Nearly four years ago, I recruited my nephew who had recently graduated from Harvard and put him to work at Bremont, a British watchmaker, one of my only active personal investments to figure out the issues at the company and ultimately assist in executing a turnaround. He did a superb job. When he returned from the UK late last year after a few years at Bremont, I asked him to help me figure out what was going on with TABLE. When I explained to TABLEโ€™s president what he would be doing, she became incredibly defensive, which naturally made me more concerned. My nephew went to work by first meeting with each employee to understand their roles at the company and to learn from them what ideas they had on how things could be improved. He got an earful. Our first step in helping to turn around TABLE was a reduction in force including the president and about a third of the team, retaining excellent talent that had been desperate for new leadership. Now here is where I need your advice. All but one of the employees who were terminated acted professionally and were gracious on the way out (excluding the president who had a notice period in her contract, is currently still being paid, and with whom I have not yet had a discussion). The highest compensated terminated employee other than the president, an in-house lawyer (letโ€™s call her Ronda), told us that three months of severance was not enough and demanded two yearsโ€™ severance despite having worked at the company for only two and one half years. When I learned of Ronda's request for severance, I offered to speak with her to understand what she was thinking, but she refused to do so. A few days ago, we received a threatening letter from a Silicon Valley law firm. In the letter, Rondaโ€™s counsel suggests that her termination is part of longstanding issues of โ€˜harassment and gender discriminationโ€™ โ€“ an interesting claim in light of the fact that Ronda was in charge of workplace compliance โ€“ and that her termination was due to: โ€œunlawful, retaliatory, and harmful conduct directed towards her. Both [Ronda] and I [Rondaโ€™s lawyer] have spoken with you about [Rondaโ€™s] view of what a reasonable resolution would include given the circumstances. Thus far, TABLE has refused to provide any substantive response. This letter provides the last opportunity to reach a satisfactory agreement. If we cannot do so, [Ronda] will seek all appropriate relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.โ€ The letter goes on to explain the basis for the โ€œunsafe work environmentโ€ claim at TABLE: โ€œIn early 2026, Pershing Squareโ€™s founder Bill Ackman installed his nephew in an unidentified role at TABLE, Ackmanโ€™s family office. [His nephew]โ€”whose only work experience had been for TABLE where he was seconded abroad for the last four years to a UK watch company held by Ackmanโ€”began appearing at TABLEโ€™s offices and conducting interviews of employees without a clear explanation of his role or the purposes of these interviews. During this period, he made a series of inappropriate and genderbased [sic] comments to multiple employees that created an unsafe work environment. Among other things, [his nephew] made remarks about female employeesโ€™ ages (โ€œTell me you are nowhere near 40โ€), physical appearance (โ€œYour body does not look like you have kidsโ€), as well as intrusive questions about family planning and sexual orientation (โ€œWho carried your son? Who will carry your next child?โ€). These incidents were reported to senior leadership at TABLE and Pershing Square. Rather than being addressed appropriately, the response from senior management reflected, at best, willful blindness to the inappropriateness of [his nephew]โ€™s remarks and, at worst, tacit endorsement.โ€ The above allegations about my nephew had previously been brought to my attention by TABLEโ€™s president when they occurred. When I learned of them, I told the president that I would speak to him directly and encouraged her to arrange for him to get workplace sensitivity training. The president assured me that she would do so. When I spoke to my nephew, he explained what he actually had said and how his actual remarks had been received, not at all as alleged in the legal letter from Rondaโ€™s counsel. I have also spoken to others at the lunch table who confirmed his description of the facts. In any case, he meant no harm, was simply trying to build rapport with other employees, and no one, as far as I understand, was offended. Ironically, Ronda claims in her legal letter that TABLE didnโ€™t take HR compliance seriously, yet Ronda was in charge of HR compliance at TABLE and the person who gave my nephew his workplace sensitivity training after the alleged incidents. In any case, Ronda, as head of compliance, should have kept a record or raised an alarm if indeed there was pervasive harassment or other such problems at the company, and there is no evidence whatsoever that this is true. So why does Ronda believe she can get me to pay her nearly $2 million, i.e., two years of severance, nearly one year of severance for each of her years at the company? Well, here is where some more background would be helpful. Over the last two months, I have been consumed with a major family medical issue โ€“ one of my older daughters had a massive brain hemorrhage on February 5th and has since been making progress on her recovery โ€“ and I am in the midst of a major transaction for my company which I am executing from a hospital room office next to her . While the latter business matter is publicly known, the details of my daughterโ€™s situation are only known to Ronda because of her role at our family office. Now, letโ€™s get back to the subject at hand. Unfortunately, while New York and many other states have employment-at-will, there has emerged an industry of lawyers who make a living from bringing fake gender, race, LGBTQ and other discrimination employment claims in order to extract larger severance payments for terminated employees, and it needs to stop. The fake claim system succeeds because it costs little to have a lawyer send a threatening letter and nearly all of the lawyers in this field work on contingency so there is no or minimal cash cost to bring a claim. And inevitably, nearly 100% of these claims are settled because the public relations and legal costs of defending them exceed the dollar cost of the settlement. The claims are nearly always settled with a confidentiality agreement where the employee who asserts the fake claims remains anonymous and as a result, there is no reputational cost to bringing false claims. The consequences of this sleazy system (letโ€™s call it โ€˜the Systemโ€™) are the increased costs of doing business which is a tax on the economy and society. There are other more serious problems due to the System. Unfortunately, the existence of an industry of plaintiff firms and terminated employees willing to make these claims makes it riskier for companies to hire employees from a protected class, i.e., LGBTQ, seniors, women, people of color etc. because it is that much more reputationally damaging and expensive to be accused of racism, sexism, and/or intolerance for sexual diversity than for firing a white male as juries generally have less sympathy for white males. The System therefore increases the risk of discrimination rather than reducing it, and the people bringing these fake claims are thereby causing enormous harm to the other members of these protected classes. So what happened here? Ronda was vastly overpaid and overqualified for the job that she did at TABLE. She was paid $1.05 million plus benefits last year for her work which was largely comprised of filling out subscription agreements and overseeing an outside law firm on closing passive investments in funds and in private and venture stage companies, some compliance work, and managing the office move from one office to another. She had a very good gig as she was highly paid, only had to go into the office three days a week, and could work from anywhere during the summer. Once my nephew showed up and started to investigate what was going on, she likely concluded that there was a reasonable possibility she would be terminated, as her job was in the too-easy-and-to-good-to-be-true category. The problem was that she was not in a protected class due to her race, age or sexual identity so she had to construct the basis for a claim. While she is female and could in theory bring a gender-based discrimination claim, she reported to the president who is female and to whom she is very close, which makes it difficult for her to bring a harassment claim against her former boss. When my nephew complimented a TABLE employee at lunch about how young she looked โ€“ in response to saying she was going to her 40-year-old sisterโ€™s birthday party, he said โ€˜she must be your older sisterโ€™ โ€“ Ronda immediately reported it to our external HR lawyer. She thereby began building her case. The other problem for Ronda bringing a claim is that she was terminated alongside 30% of other TABLE employees as part of a restructuring so it is very difficult for her to say that she was targeted in her termination or was retaliated against. TABLE is now hiring an external fractional general counsel as that is all the company needs to process the relatively limited amount of legal work we do internally. In short, Ronda was eminently qualified and capable and did her job. She was just too much horsepower for what is largely an administrative legal role so she had to come up with something else to bring a claim. Now Ronda knew I was a good target and it was a good time to bring a claim against me. She also knew that I was under a lot of pressure because on March 4th when Ronda was terminated, my daughter had not yet emerged from consciousness, she was not yet breathing on her own, and my daughter and we were fighting for her life. I was and remain deeply engaged in her recovery while at the same time I was working on finishing the closing for the private placement round for my upcoming IPO. Ronda also knew that publicity about supposed gender discrimination and a โ€œhostile and unsafe work environmentโ€ are not things that a CEO of a company about to go public wants to have released into the media. And she may have thought that the nearly $2 million she was asking for would be considered small in the context of the reputational damage a lawsuit could cause, regardless of the fact that two years of severance was an absurd amount for an employee who had only worked at TABLE for 30 months. She also likely considered that I wouldnโ€™t want to embarrass my nephew by dragging him into the klieg lights when her claims emerged publicly. So, in summary, game theory would say that I would certainly settle this case, for why would I risk negative publicity at a time when I was preparing our company to go public and also risk embarrassing my nephew. Notably, she hired a Silicon Valley law firm, rather than a typical NY employment firm. This struck me as interesting as her husband works for one of the most prominent Silicon Valley venture firms whose CEO, I am sure, has no tolerance for these kinds of fake claims that sadly many venture-backed companies also have to deal with. I mention this as I suspect her husband likely has been working with her on the strategy for squeezing me as, in addition to being a computer scientist, he is a game theorist. My only advice for him is to understand more about your opponent before you launch your first move. All of the above said, gender, race, LGBTQ and other such discrimination is a real thing. Many people have been harmed and deserve compensation for this discrimination, and these companies and individuals should be punished for engaging in such behavior. Which brings me to the advice I am seeking from the X community. I am not planning to follow the typical path and settle this โ€˜claim.โ€™ Rather, I am going to fight this nonsense to the end of the earth in the hope that it inspires other CEOs to do the same so we shut down this despicable behavior that is a large tax on society, employment, and the economy and contributes to workplace discrimination rather than reducing it. Do you agree or disagree that this is the right approach?
English
10.8K
1.3K
23.7K
10.7M
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Mike Lee
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLeeยท
Argentinaโ€™s president, @JMilei, makes an art form out of Spanish profanity In the process, he offers a compelling explanation of the leftโ€™s preoccupation with the politics of personal destruction
English
73
550
3.4K
49K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Defiant Lโ€™s
Defiant Lโ€™s@DefiantLsยท
"I am an Iranian who lives in Tehranโ€ฆ In case I'm dead tomorrow, I just want you to remember this. Please. Shut the f*ck up and don't use me against America or Israel to try and convince them to stop. We asked for this..."
English
388
4K
18.1K
440.8K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmuskยท
My idea of a good time is working with amazing engineers to create incredible technology ๐Ÿคฉ The Tesla chip research fab will have all the machines needed to do logic, memory, packing & masks in one building for a lightning fast development cycle. Heaven ๐Ÿ’ซ
English
10.1K
16.6K
207.5K
47.7M
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป@proteusguyยท
Amen brother.
Eric S. Raymond@esrtweet

Hello, Europeans. The first thing you need to understand about the rant I'm about to utter is that I'm not MAGA, not a Trumpite, but a libertarian who has in the past nevertheless been strongly supportive of US military presence overseas. Because I want the wars that defend this country to be fought in somebody else's country, as far away from me as possible with a nice big ocean in the way. Also relevant: I have a history of having lived in Europe and traveled there extensively. I was at one time bilingual in English and Spanish, and have been passably fluent in Italian and French as well. I could probably still find my way around London and Rome and central Paris reasonably well. So if you're tempted to tell yourselves that I'm some kind of parochial American hick, abandon that hope. All that was set-up. So that, when I tell you that almost the entirety of the US electorate, not just Trump supporters, is increasingly fed up with your shit, take me seriously. We've been cleaning up your messes and keeping the sea lanes open since 1917. And that was for you, not us - we, being very close to resource self-sufficient, don't need that investment so much. We've spent enormous amounts of blood and treasure on keeping you safe. We risked nuclear hellfire on our own cities for nearly 50 years to keep Soviet tanks from rolling through the Fulda Gap. Even since the Cold War ended, we've subsidized your socialist-playpen welfare states and disastrous immigration policies by taking the need to maintain militaries more effective than a sack of wet farts off the table. Now we've come looking for help keeping a bunch of rabid Islamic fanatics from getting nuclear weapons that are a clear and present danger to all of you even more than they are to us, and what do we hear? "Waah! It's another Republican president we don't like, just like the last half dozen of them! So we're going to sulk in a corner, except when we're biting at your ankles with crap like airspace restrictions." No. No, we're not going to take this anymore. It's not just conservatives who have had enough, it's moderates and people who used to be strong supporters of liberal internationalism. Our citizen's willingness to pay higher taxes to protect you was upward-bounded by your gratitude. Now that we know your gratitude has effectively gone to zero, so does our willingness. Don't expect this to change if the Democrats take power here. They are much less liberal-internationalist than Republicans now. While they might make mouth noises that soothe you, their overriding concern is the gaping, insatiable maw of their income transfer programs. They'll sacrifice subsidizing Europe's playpen socialism to feed their domestic version in a heartbeat. And there is no longer any significant Democratic constituency to argue against that. In truth, three decades after the Cold War ended there is no American constituency at all for the massive subsidies you get. It frankly surprises me they lasted this long, that we were this patient with your cowardice and your bitchy whining. This moment has been a long time coming. It's not Donald Trump sinking the transatlantic alliance, it is absolutely you.

English
0
0
0
5
Leader John Thune
Leader John Thune@LeaderJohnThuneยท
I want to express my deep gratitude for all of the brave servicemembers involved in rescuing two F-15E crew members in Iran. These operations are incredibly difficult, and the safe return of both crew members is a powerful testament to their training and the expertise of all the U.S. military units involved in this search and recovery. Grateful today and every day for our heroic men and women in uniform.
English
6.7K
450
4.9K
435.6K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
C3
C3@C_3C_3ยท
BREAKING NEWS: Judge Boasberg has ruled President Trump must return the US pilot and send 10 more pallets of cash to Iran.
C3 tweet media
English
1.4K
6.3K
42.8K
637.9K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Mike McCulloch
Mike McCulloch@memccullochยท
I've written 17 pages of a new book. Just a series of mini-papers so far. I'm predicting various phenomena with an uncertainty-type QI & then the informational version, suggesting that Heisenberg's relation is just a consequence of a deeper informational theory.
English
1
4
37
973
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Dr. Maalouf โ€
Dr. Maalouf โ€@realMaaloufยท
Flashback: In the Iranian Parliament, MPs burn the American flag while chanting โ€œDeath to America,โ€ and threaten to use a nuclear bomb against the American homeland. Trump did not start a war. Heโ€™s finishing one that was long underway.
English
237
3K
11.1K
183.6K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Peter Bernegger
Peter Bernegger@PeterBerneggerยท
๐Ÿšจ THIS WEEK: we are formally referring US Senator John Thune & his campaign Treasurer Nicole Weyers for felony criminal charges - money laundering, identity theft, wire fraud, bank secrecy act, false statements to the feds & more. We found the legal path to step into the shoes of the U.S. Attorney General. We have a live federal lawsuit against the FEC on Thune's campaign committee. Take the #ThuneOut Pledge with me: ๐Ÿšซ NO votes ๐Ÿšซ NO donations โ€ฆto ANY 'Republican' until Thune is removed as Senate Majority Leader. Why? Just one example: while President Trump waits on recess appointments, Thune is running 33-second Senate 'sessions' to BLOCK them. These aren't Republicans - they're saboteurs. "Republicans" have now taken our spending and debt to all time historic highs in nominal dollars since the founding of our nation, as a second example. We now have 8 federal lawsuits against corrupt U.S. Senators. With real resources we'd have 70 lawsuits filed against US Senators- that is how bad it is. The purge starts with Thune. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ElectionWatch.info and see if your name is being used by the corrupt John Thune for laundering money into his campaign (all are over the age of 65): -go to our website -scroll down to the USA map, click on the desired state -let it load, a list comes up of Smurfs, i.e. victims -click on Show Search, or Smurf Search or Advanced Search (use a laptop or PC) -click on the small green box to the left of any person's name -an interactive chart will come up: red line is the number of contributions that day, green line the corresponding dollar amount -click on anything in green text for more data/info
Peter Bernegger@PeterBernegger

I am not voting for any Republican until @johnthune is removed as Leader of the United States Senate. Take the "Thune Pledge" with me. I will cast a ballot in each election by picking one independent, so my ballot is not stolen. @WisGop @RNC @JudiciaryGOP @GOP Also, I will not donate to any Republican candidate, none, until Thune is removed as Leader of the Senate. No matter if it takes a month or years. Those who say "then Democrats will win". With guys like Thune, there is no difference. Thune and his goons won't pass the save act, but it is much worse. Thune has been blocking President Trump's agenda, blocking Trump's appointments. I will be directly noticing my local GOP chairman, the state GOP and various candidates there will be zero votes, zero money, for any Republican. Peter Bernegger

English
324
4.1K
9K
266.4K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Peter Bernegger
Peter Bernegger@PeterBerneggerยท
I am not voting for any Republican until @johnthune is removed as Leader of the United States Senate. Take the "Thune Pledge" with me. I will cast a ballot in each election by picking one independent, so my ballot is not stolen. @WisGop @RNC @JudiciaryGOP @GOP Also, I will not donate to any Republican candidate, none, until Thune is removed as Leader of the Senate. No matter if it takes a month or years. Those who say "then Democrats will win". With guys like Thune, there is no difference. Thune and his goons won't pass the save act, but it is much worse. Thune has been blocking President Trump's agenda, blocking Trump's appointments. I will be directly noticing my local GOP chairman, the state GOP and various candidates there will be zero votes, zero money, for any Republican. Peter Bernegger
English
489
1.5K
4K
205.9K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Rod D. Martin
Rod D. Martin@RodDMartinยท
Tucker, Candace, Joe Kent: โ€œIran isnโ€™t trying to build nuclear weapons. The Ayatollah said nukes are immoral!โ€ Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: โ€œWe tried to develop nuclear weapons, but couldn't keep it secret.โ€
English
55
737
2.7K
62.3K
Chuck Swindoll
Chuck Swindoll@chuckswindollยท
Six hours on the cross. A brutality that staggers the imagination. And yet, what those who stood at Calvary heard was remarkable. Words of forgiveness from the One bearing the weight of the world's sin. He leaned His head back, the same posture John describes as resting on a pillow before sleep, and gave up His spirit. His work was done. Mission accomplished. Tetelestai. Paid in full.
English
13
230
1.1K
21.1K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Samuel Cardillo
Samuel Cardillo@CardilloSamuelยท
i've been exchanging with a friend of mine who live in iran. he hasn't left his apartment since the beginning of the war. i asked him if he feels the west is winning or loosing. he told me something interesting. he said: i don't know who's winning but i know iran has already lost. i asked him what does it mean. he said "they're now using their women in our streets, they're doing rallies of cars filled by women and children only, going allover the city with the islamic republic flags, reciting their quoran interpretation through speaker. [...] the regular army is fully disarmed because else they will stage a coup' i then asked him if he feels like topling the regime is out of reach or not. he told me that yes, it still is but with a caveat. "if it was just them it wouldn't have been out of reach, but they have imported mercenaries from iraq. and under each bridge there are search stops, each with 3 people tops. afraid, very paranoid - but at the end, it's three people. [...] for the people to march and take control, yes, it is still definitely out of reach. but with any tiny amount of weapon distribution it's gonna happen. [...] people are behaving different, not like people under missiles. they are planning and they a sitting ready. people on the street talk about their list of government employees that they are gonna attack." finally, i asked him what is the general opinion about the coalition operation, if the overall population is still supporting the united states & israel which is literally bombing their country. his answer was VERY interesting: "the irgc are trying very hard to change the narrative, they did the same last time Israel attacked, after the 12 days war, and it worked with a lot of people. not all but there were too many people (for my liking). they try to touch the nationalist in people. insinuating that the united states and israel are attacking iran and not the irgc. but, tt worked last time, but not this time. no one is buying the narrative, especially after the way they handled the protests. [...] mainly, don't believe most of the iranians on twitter or the internet. lot of them are regime members who got a white sim card, not regular people"
Samuel Cardillo tweet media
English
192
904
3.7K
455.4K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich@newtgingrichยท
More tragic news reminding us of the brutality of the Iranian dictatorship: from a friend: Another troubling news. The dictatorship today executed two more members of the MEK. Since Monday Six member of the MEK and an 18-year-old protestor were executed, all charged with their resistance against the dictatorship. We are doing our best to get more attention to these executions. Many more are on death row.ย  Here is more details:ย  (2) Maryam Rajavi on X: "At dawn today, Vahid Bani Amerian and Abolhassan Montazer were hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison, Karaj. The two heroic members of the Peopleโ€™s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) have now joined their comrades who laid down their lives in the struggle for freedom, including t.co/aIVQYrXu7d" / X
English
137
629
1.3K
44K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
Dr. Eli David
Dr. Eli David@DrEliDavidยท
.@JMilei: โ€œBeing leftist is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.โ€
English
43
579
3K
52.9K
Ben Scherrey ๐ŸŒป ๅทฒ่ฝฌๆŽจ
M.A. Rothman
M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothmanยท
๐…๐Ž๐‘๐Œ๐„๐‘ ๐๐‘๐ˆ๐“๐ˆ๐’๐‡ ๐Œ๐„๐ ๐“๐Ž ๐Š๐ˆ๐๐† ๐‚๐‡๐€๐‘๐‹๐„๐’: โ€œ๐˜๐Ž๐” ๐Œ๐”๐’๐“ ๐€๐๐ƒ๐ˆ๐‚๐€๐“๐„โ€ Godfrey Bloom โ€” a former UK Independence Party Member of the European Parliament, Sandhurst graduate, and self-described โ€œdyed-in-the-wool monarchistโ€ whose family held commissions under Charlesโ€™s mother and grandfather โ€” just delivered the most devastating address to the British crown in modern memory. The background: Buckingham Palace confirmed this week that King Charles will ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ž ๐š๐ง ๐„๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ ๐ž in 2026. He did issue one last year. But this year โ€” the most important holiday on the Christian calendar โ€” the head of the Church of England went silent. This from the same King who recorded a Ramadan greeting in February, acknowledged a Nigerian presidentโ€™s โ€œsacrificeโ€ during Ramadan at a State Banquet, and has repeatedly elevated Islamic observances in public addresses (Buckingham Palace; ๐˜ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ). Bloom opened by establishing his credentials โ€” and then dismantled Charlesโ€™s claim to the throne on constitutional grounds. โ€œ๐˜โ€™๐˜ฎ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ-๐˜ช๐˜ฏ-๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ-๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต, ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ, ๐˜ฎ๐˜บ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ. ๐˜ž๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ท๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ.โ€ This wasnโ€™t an attack from the outside. It was a family intervention. Then the charge: โ€œ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ, ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ. ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ. ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ด ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถโ€™๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜จ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜Œ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ฎ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฃ๐˜ซ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ โ€” ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜ด๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ.โ€ And hereโ€™s where Bloomโ€™s argument becomes impossible to dismiss as bigotry. He preempted it: โ€œ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ตโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜โ€™๐˜ฎ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ. ๐˜โ€™๐˜ฎ ๐˜ข ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ. ๐˜๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ. ๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ.โ€ His objection isnโ€™t theological โ€” itโ€™s ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ. The British monarchโ€™s role as Supreme Governor of the Church of England isnโ€™t ceremonial decoration. Itโ€™s a ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐จ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง of the Crown, codified since Henry VIIIโ€™s Act of Supremacy in ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ’. A king who wonโ€™t perform it has abandoned the terms under which he holds the office. The demand was unambiguous: โ€œ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ. ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ.โ€ Then the closer, delivered with the kind of controlled fury that comes from a man who believes in the institution his king is betraying: โ€œ๐˜Ž๐˜ฆ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ ๐˜จ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ. ๐˜ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.โ€ David Limbaugh shared the clip with five words: โ€œBless this courageous and principled man.โ€ Over ๐Ÿ•๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ,๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ in under 24 hours. The video struck a nerve because the grievance isnโ€™t just British โ€” itโ€™s the same pattern playing out across the entire Western world. Leaders who were entrusted with preserving the institutions of their civilization are systematically hollowing them out from the inside. ๐‡๐ž ๐ ๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐‘๐š๐ฆ๐š๐๐š๐ง ๐š ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐„๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž. ๐€ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ .
English
9
103
260
4.2K