For Elon Musk it is the organization of Twitter with 7,500 employees dedicated to ensuring he would never succeed in his takeover effort. From the board of directors to the data engineers who build the controlling algorithms, to the third-party service providers who manage the data demand, there are likely only a handful of people within the entire corporation who would welcome the type of change Elon Musk represents.
As a result of the scale of opposition, any organizational takeover would ultimately deliver a company filled with sleeper cells and activist agents who consider it their personal and ideological mission to destroy the social media platform rather than accept change. The purchase effort was doomed from the outset, considering Musk represented something akin to Rand Paul being nominated to lead the World Bank or Federal Reserve. Some stuff just isn’t possible.
We The People attempted the Musk route when we sent President Donald Trump into Washington DC. However, instead of one institution with 7,500 people, it was dozens of institutions housing hundreds of thousands of entrenched ideologues. Most MAGA voters did not realize it at the time because grade school civics was never updated with our post-9/11 political outcome.
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Think this heatwave is bad? Scorching summer of 1936 saw North Dakota bake in 121F heat that was hotter than DEATH VALLEY, killed 5,000 and made it possible to cook steak on the street
Most of the globe is currently experiencing a heatwave, with Britain recording its highest temperature at 104 degrees on Tuesday
However, the summer of 1936 was more deadly and hotter, more than killing 5,000 people
Temperatures hit as high as 121 degrees in North Dakota and was hotter than Death Valley and could cook a rare steak on the street
People in Nebraska and New York slept outside and Americans only had fans and ice to cool them off
The hottest temperature ever recorded in the United States was 134f in Death Valley in July 1913
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Dick Morris outlines five strategic elements of Trump’s next presidential campaign; and, yes, he is going to run again
Massive Implications, Saudi Arabia in Discussion to Join BRICS Coalition – The Outcome Would be Global Energy and Economic Cleaving
It is very curious timing in this article from Newsweek, containing massive geopolitical implications, using identified Saudi Arabia sources, would come in advance of Joe Biden’s visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Is this strategic geopolitical pressure from Saudi leader Mohamed Bin Salman (MbS) ahead of the meeting with Biden; or is this a genuine possibility that looms as likely? If the former, then Joe Biden is being geopolitically slow roasted by Saudi Arabia for his previous disparagements and ideological hypocrisy in his visit. If it is the latter, well, then the tectonic plates of international trade, banking and economics are about to shift directly under our American feet.
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Robert Barnes on the three centers of power in the US
Well-worth viewing. ABN
Strong state governments will give us more strong governors like Lake. Something has to balance our corrupt and dysfunctional federal government. ABN
Project Veritas EXPOSES SC Dem State Rep Advocating For Illegally Funding Campaign With Dope Money
Harmeet Dhillon on the basics of the Roe decision
Supreme Court strikes New York gun law in major ruling that could affect other state laws
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a restrictive New York gun law in a major ruling for gun rights.
The justices’ 6-3 decision is expected to ultimately allow more people to legally carry guns on the streets of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Los Angeles and Boston — and elsewhere. About a quarter of the U.S. population lives in states expected to be affected by the ruling, the high court’s first major gun decision in more than a decade.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority that the Constitution protects “an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.”
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Doctors & Psychotherapists: Butchers & Liars
All on its own, Woke has wandered into an existential reductio ad absurdum which demonstrates conclusively that not only gender reassignment for children but almost all of what they stand for is absurd, even cruel and grossly impractical. Though they cannot see it themselves, most of the rest of us can. Reductio ad absurdum is an argument that proves its opposite by “reducing itself to absurdity.” Woke has lived that argument long enough that we may be at a major turning point where everything about their shitty ideas goes poof all at once. ABN
CEO of crypto firm Kraken offers woke workers four months severance pay to QUIT after warning staff ‘being offended doesn’t make you harmed’ – and 30 take up his offer
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More of this, please. Much more of this. Diversity of thought and the freedom to speak our minds is our American cultural and legal heritage. There is no better way to run a society. We should all be proud of our heritage and strive to fully understand the value of it. Also, enjoy it! It is wonderful to be open-minded and unabashedly converse with others who are similarly not afraid to speak their minds. ABN
Regarding the Patriot Front members’ arrest—sus af.
Regarding the Patriot Front members’ arrest—sus af.
Some bots/leftists claim their faces were uncovered when they were arrested—right.
Originally tweeted by Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) on June 12, 2022.
Robert Malone & Joseph Kent wide-ranging discussion on politics, economy, globalism, individualism
The importance of fuzzy lines in maintaining a sane world
Online speech restrictions make sense up to a point. There is a reasonable line in there somewhere. Twitter is going way to far in only one direction, so almost all of us see its restrictions are unreasonable and probably unsustainable. This situation illustrates 1) the importance of lines, and 2) that lines are necessarily fuzzy, and 3) that even fuzzy lines have to be firm in the right places.
Over the past six decades, USA has waffled too much on our fuzzy lines, both legal and cultural. Fuzzy lines are hard to draw and hard to keep firm. Trump’s border wall is an example of a successful firm fuzzy line as were his immigration policies. TBH, gay marriage probably went to far. It crossed a fuzzy line of accepting homosexuality probably too much. Once crossed, all manner of gender “rights” have made even human identities fuzzy. Today, “abortion rights” are even beginning to include the right to kill your “perinatal” infant.
In thinking about fuzzy lines it is crucial that we all recognize that all cultures are fundamentally held together by Lowest Common Denominator behavioral rules and as such are kind of stupid and very easy to attack. All cultures are held together with fuzzy lines. No culture is perfect. All cultures can be destabilized by constantly pushing against their fuzzy lines. Some pushing is good. Too much pushing is bad. Don’t make perfect be the enemy of good enough. Don’t allow woke to be the enemy of reason. Or anyone’s sexuality or identity the enemy of a reasonably well-functioning society. It’s not easy to do this right but it is not impossible either and it must be done or chaos ensues. ABN
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