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This is how you can spot fake tweets from PDJT, they don’t sound like him.
Writers call this style of writing “voicey” because you can feel the personality of the author. It’s like an art form within an art form.
Trump might never get full credit for the quality of his writing, but it often blows me away. You won’t see better.
ALTERNATE TAKE
Elon is serious; he wants Milei-style reform in America.
Milei’s reforms have instantly improved the economy in Argentina.
Baloney.
Musk wants what’s good for Musk.
DOGE was good for him so he did it. Hopefully he didn’t harvest all the data for “Total” or implant Palantir.
But he has tweeted he’s in America for the H1-B discount. Not for freedom or even opportunity, but because he doesn’t have to hire Americans at decent wages.
Our Fren Elon – by 𝙂𝙊𝙊𝘿 𝘾𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙕𝙀𝙉
Musk knows that is not realistic. Sundance sure called this one. It baffles me though because I don’t see how it benefits Musk. He just makes himself looks like a nutjob.
Yes it’s not realistic, but then again this is someone who thinks he is going to Mars.
He has a reusable rocket, give him five minutes.
Agree.
Do believe its time for Elon to start listening to his father or maybe take a nice vacation far away from any type of communications.
Elon starting to sound like that friend where really helped you out during tough times with advice and such, then they turn on you because you start doing more things on your own. They get mad and tell the your friends not just confederal secrets but lies.
I do too, but Washington DC don’t roll like that.
“One thing I’ve now learned … sit back and watch.”
In almost every single thing that is now being presented to us, we are witnessing: theater. Or, if you prefer: propaganda.
It could be “long-term.” It could be “short-term.” Trump is cozy with [Musk], then, suddenly, Trump is impetuously furious with him. “So it goes,” and there are endless examples lately.
Are you being played?
Kindly notice: All of these “plays” have utterly no subtlety to them. “It is as though they were being organized from afar …”
And: “when do they want you to react to any of these moves?” Of course: “immediately … impetuously … impulsively.”
I agree.
With all due respect to DcDraino, its really President Donald J Trump & MAGA/Trump Republicans.
Re No Tax on Tips, I’m sure RINO Tillis (NC) will eff this up.
Sorry, for most Americans my age, it was no Social Security taxes. That is a huge deal out here and something that would help everyday Americans. For the people I talk to, this is the issue.
The Great State of New Jersey has a very important Primary coming up on Tuesday. Get Out and Vote for Jack Ciattarelli, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement! His Opponents are going around saying they have my Endorsement, which is not true, I don’t even know who they are! We can’t play games when it comes to Elections, and New Jersey is a very important State that we must WIN. The whole World is watching. Vote for Jack Ciattarelli to, MAKE NEW JERSEY GREAT AGAIN!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114643566832017351
Jack was a quitter and folded like a cheap suit
when goofytooth pulled off his 3am heist of last election
I think N.J. is screwed no matter the outcome
New Jersey is almost full blown communist, like, California, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, New Mexico, Minnesota and Illinois. Still, we must support change. The question is whether they have hit rock bottom yet. They seem to be close.
For New Yorkers, the light at the end of the tunnel is New Jersey.
I grew up in NJ. The big cities always stole elections, just like Chicago . It has been going on for so long. If you tried to stop it, you were threatened or worse.
I hope they can overcome this with Our Great President.
I pray. It was a great place at one time. God Bless.
DOGE Nw Jersey. What happens all that property tax?
If you haven’t seen this recap…ya should!
https://x.com/RealDrJaneRuby/status/1929733102806462525/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1929733102806462525¤tTweetUser=RealDrJaneRuby
This is such BS—The parents are trying to blame the resident saying the teens were only robbing the place.Around 50%vof home robberies s end up with the resident assaulted or killed when they at home, even if the resident cooperates and does nothing.
‘There’s a young kid laying dead on my lawn’ | 3 masked teens killed in shootout with Georgia homeowner’They were still 3 young men; they still had a mother…a father, a sister.”
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/conyers/rockdale-county-conyers-masked-men-shot/85-09d038ed-6721-4d16-b10b-e04d5eda5aee
It is BS. Eff the parents of the little “darlings”.
Gor did it. Sergio Gor, the director of presidential personnel!
White House Staffer Responsible for ‘Fanning Flames’ Between Trump and Musk ID’d: Report
Citing interviews with five unidentified sources, described as “inside or close to the White House,” the Post reported that Sergio Gor, the director of presidential personnel, was known to have been involved in an ongoing feud with Musk dating back to even before Trump’s inauguration in January.
During the presidential transition period, Musk had described Gor as “sleazy,” according to the Post, and “questioning his staffing picks.”
At a March 6 cabinet meeting, the paper reported, Musk attacked Gor in front of the president.
“Elon was always telling the president ‘Sergio’s not moving fast enough to hire people. He’s not the right guy for the job,’” one source told the Post. “In front of the entire cabinet, he said that. It’s not just humiliating, but the president starts looking at him like, ‘Why aren’t you doing your f***ing job?’”
For his part, Gor made a habit of mocking Musk, according to the Post, especially when stock dropped in Tesla, Musk’s electric vehicle company. He would also “plant” negative stories about Musk, one source told the Post.
Gor was also bent on revenge, one source told the Post.
“He was bragging to other people that he was going to get one last shot at Elon out the door,” the source said, according to the newspaper. “He was going to get Elon back for making him look bad.”
The tipping point of the feud, however, came on Saturday when Trump announced he was pulling the nomination of Jared Isaacman, a space entrepreneur personal friend of Musk, to be the head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Gor was “instrumental” in getting Trump to pull the nomination, according to the Post.
And that Trump decision, as the Post put it, turned “a contained disagreement on legislation into a firestorm of insults.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-staffer-responsible-for-fanning-flames-between-trump-and-musk-id-d-report/ar-AA1Gh9KK
Somebody in “the White House” got Dr. Dave Weldon’s nomination for CDC director pulled, and we got some AI flake instead who can’t even get the website in order.
Isaacman’s name was withdrawn after campaign finance records revealed over $200,000 in donations to prominent Democratic politicians, committees, and super PACs.
The donations, all made in recent election cycles, include contributions to some of the most powerful Democrat operatives and institutions:
Jared Isaacman’s Political Donations (2021–2024):
$100,000 to Senate Majority PAC (10/28/2021) — aligned with Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
$50,000 to Josh Shapiro for Governor (3/2/2022)
$10,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (3/29/2022)
$10,000 to the Democratic Party of Pennsylvania (7/22/2024)
$10,000 to the Michigan Democratic State Central Committee (8/1/2024)
$2,500 to George Whitesides for Congress (6/28/2022)
$2,500 to George Whitesides for Congress (11/8/2022)
$1,000 to Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA)
$500 to Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
$5,000 to Keystone America PAC (Democrat-aligned PA PAC)
$5,000 to Mitten PAC (Democrat-aligned MI PAC)
Notably absent from Isaacman’s financial history: any donations to President Donald Trump, his campaign, or any Trump-aligned political action committee.
Isaacman’s donations, all on record with the Federal Election Commission and compiled by OpenSecrets.org, leave little doubt about his political leanings in recent cycles.
The takeaway from the Trump team, according to insiders: if you back Chuck Schumer with six-figure donations, don’t expect to be appointed in a Trump administration.
JMO.
The anti-Americans have been trying to break up the MAGA / America First movement since it started.
They can’t build such a movement because they are by definition NOT MAGA / AMERICA FIRST.
So, their only hope to be in America’s future is to fool the American people and break up MAGA / America First.
It is nothing new …….. turtle mcconnell of the senate gang tried since 2015 to prevent the growth of President Trump’s movement.
DeSantis and Charlie Kirk of Turning Point joined together to try to break off a good portion of the MAGA / America First movement in 2022 to stop President Trump……… to help DeSantXX’s primary run against President Trump …… based on the fraudulent mar-a-lago raid……….. of course, that failed and DesantXX crashed and burned.
The traitors in the biden DOJ / 3-letter departments spent over two years with law fare to split up the MAGA Movement…. they failed. That included the CIA.
The CIA still is working on trying to split up the MAGA / America First Movement … to damage President Trump…….. their latest weapon is elon …… witness his current threat to start another party against President Trump.
If not actively involved with them, he is certainly what the communist call a “useful idiot.”
Believe the enemy when they tell you what they want to do.
MAGA / America First isn’t just our motto, it is our duty ……. elon certainly isn’t MAGA / America First
ps Charlie Kirk did entertain destroying the MAGA / America First movement with DeSantXX in 2022….. he reversed course a year later and became an important player in electing President Trump in 2024…… President Trump had no hard feelings about his earlier missteps and gives him credit for the votes from the university campuses.
Can that happen with elon? Who knows …… is he a “useful idiot’ who later recants? perhaps ……… is he a hard core CIA operative? never
Yup, since it was the Tea Party Movement. UniParty involved.
If you haven’t see this recap…ya should.
https://x.com/RealDrJaneRuby/status/1929733102806462525
If you haven’t thought seriously about giving a brief recap of what’s in the link…ya should.
It’s getting very tiresome to keep hearing about the Musk-Trump feud or whatever it is. Why don’t they just settle it and move on. I’m kind of wondering why PTrump is absolutely refusing to talk to Elon at least and have some closure on all of it. It’s becoming rather juvenile or at least the reporting is and a new culprit pops up everyday like this Gor guy who seems to be a questionable member of team Trump or maybe that’s not true either.
He said-she said and all that. Again, as with just about every stinking mucked up political issue, the truth has disappeared and will probably never return. The media spins, the Dems keep repeating their lies and half truths right along with said media and it’s nothing but garbage in garbage out. Time to put this to bed and get moving on the other important issues ahead.
https://joehoft.com/breaking-exclusive-sheriff-dar-leaf-shows-how-dominions-ceo-committed-perjury-got-caught-and-targeted-tina-peters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-exclusive-sheriff-dar-leaf-shows-how-dominions-ceo-committed-perjury-got-caught-and-targeted-tina-peters
Free Tina Peters! This is another travesty of justice thanks to a commie state, Colorado.
The successful launch of the Xi’an-Tehran rail link is yet another demonstration of how the US has lost its global hegemony and superpower status. It is still a primary regional power, but it’s ability to project power has been significantly constrained and is now limited to Western Europe and the Americas.
At this point, it is reasonable to suspect that China’s regional dominance over Asia, Africa, and Persia is now more important than the USA’s regional dominance over the Americas and Western Europe, especially since the remnants of Clown World that rule Western Europe are directly opposed to the American national interest.
The current US political structure may not even make it to 2033, which, you may recall, I first predicted publicly 21 years ago, in 2004.
Vox Dai
As an American(!), I certainly would like to see something much better than: “the current(!) US political structure.” I think that, if we just put our heads together, we can do MUCH better than THESE CLOWNS are doing! 🤡
“Time marches on,” and, as for me, “I’m ready.” In fact, I am extremely impatient.
I would much rather hear about why there was zero “doge” report come out of the pentagon. This Musk/Trump this is small potatoes it seems. Perhaps the young needs from done are still working over there since Musk left? Maybe waiting for the big beautiful bill to pass first before digging into that mess.
Nerds from DOGE…fat fingers!
Immigration….
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
NEW: Per federal sources, despite local claims, there was no ICE “raid” at a Home Depot in LA today. DHS has a nearby office in Paramount that they are using as a staging area. Protesters found it and began gathering. ICE will conduct targeted enforcement around LA today, serving criminal judicial warrants and enforcing final orders of removal/deportation orders.
CBP and Border Patrol have been brought in to provide security and extra bodies, and a handful of agitators have already been arrested today for allegedly interfering with federal agents.
Cont….
“TOM HOMAN SAYS NATIONAL GUARD WILL BE DEPLOYED TONIGHT TO DEFEND ICE AGENTS IN LOS ANGELES”….
During the reign of President Auto-pen these street thugs came to believe they are above the law, largely because their bail was paid by organizations fomenting unrest and judges who let them off anyway. With no sense of irony, these idiots are now chanting “No KKK, no fascist USA” when they are the closest thing we have today to the KKK and fascists. Whose streets? Well, they used to be ours. We’ll see how far into summer this color revolution can monopolize our public spaces and courts. Personally, I think the police need to be re-empowered to use the necessary force to reset public expectations to pre-BLM, antifa, Ferguson, George Floyd, etc.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: Police now ARRESTING left-wing thugs for targeting ICE and law enforcement outside the federal building.
They are trying to BLOCK migrant transfer vans.
ALL of them need a good case of FAFO, no exceptions.
Video linked….
“Summer of Jihad”…
Here’s a novel idea how about instead of no bail, no charges and releasing them to riot again, convict them and jail them for a minimum of 10 years!? Takes them off of the list of rioters available for leftist rioting jobs! Need to shrink that list dramatically!!! Start now with the ICE rioters!!! Just a suggestion. JMO
MSM working overtime to try to make defending illegals an ‘issue’. There is no issue. Just a few radical hell raisers. Even a large chunk of Democrats don’t want open borders.
NO EXCEPTIONS. ZERO TOLERANCE, MAXIMUM PENALTY!!!
Inevitable West
@Inevitablewest
🚨BREAKING: Thousands of Christians takeover Central Paris to declare France is a Christian nation
Video linked…
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 #BREAKING: Trump admin is now moving the Small Business Administration Regional Office OUT of Los Angeles because of local Democrats’ refusal to cooperate with ICE
“If a city won’t protect its people, we won’t stay,” Kelly Loeffler said.
Cont….
FAFO.
Excellent. Now do the same in Colorado (entire state) and Minnesota.
Written by a German ‘historian’ living in Istanbul, about the recently agreed to swap of prisoners and corpses…
The POW swap has been delayed, and Ukrainian officials have failed to show up at the border to receive the first 1,212 of their deceased soldiers. Regarding both, Kiev has blamed Russia. Yet, remarkably, the Ukrainian statements, in reality, prove that it is indeed Kiev that is – at the very least – slowing these processes down. For what Ukrainian officials are really accusing Russia of is moving faster. The reasons for this obstructionism are unclear. The Ukrainian authorities have not shared them with the public. But there are some plausible guesses.
One very likely reason why Kiev is reluctant to accept the 6,000 bodies of its own fallen soldiers is that the “preponderant majority” of them, according to a Ukrainian member of parliament, were killed specifically during Ukraine’s insane and predictably catastrophic incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. Started on August 6 of last year, the operation was initially hyped by Ukrainian propagandists and their accomplices and useful idiots in the West.
For the clear-eyed, it was obvious from the beginning that this was a mass kamikaze mission, wasting Ukrainian lives for no military or political advantage. Was the Zelensky regime trying to create a territorial “bargaining chip”? Or once more “shift the narrative,” as if wars are won by rewriting a movie script? Influence last year’s US elections? Prepare for a possible victory by then presidential candidate Donald Trump? All of the above? We don’t know. What we do know is that nothing Kiev may have fantasized about has worked.
Indeed, by now the Kursk fiasco has only made Kiev’s situation worse. Russia has retaken the territory in Kursk Region that Ukraine had seized and is advancing on the Ukrainian side of the border, taking settlements at an accelerating pace and getting close to the major regional city of Sumy. Clearly, those fallen during that particular suicide mission are evidence of Kiev’s recklessness, hypocrisy, and incompetence. No wonder they seem to be less than welcome at home.
A second reason for Kiev’s reluctance may be even more sordid. There is speculation, for instance on social media, that it is financial. More importantly, a Russian diplomat, Sergei Ordzhonikidze, has made the same claim on the Telegram channel of the Izvestiia newspaper. For according to Ukrainian legislation, the families of the fallen soldiers are entitled to substantial compensation. Painful as it may be to acknowledge it, the Zelensky regime is not incapable of such a massive lack of piety.
Whatever the precise reasons for Kiev’s odd refusal to take back its prisoners and dead, they are certain to be base. This may jar with the West’s well-organized and stubbornly delusional Zelensky fan club. But the best they could do for “ordinary” Ukrainians is to put pressure on their worn-out idol to accept the prisoners and the fallen. And, of course to finally end the war.
A Russian’s take on the issue…
As refrigerated trucks sit idling on the Russian side of the border, carrying the bodies of over a thousand Ukrainian soldiers – the first batch of the 6,000 Russia has offered to return – Kiev remains silent. No Ukrainian officials have shown up. No representatives have been dispatched to accept the remains. No families have been informed of the long-awaited closure.
This delay, coming after a prisoner exchange and body repatriation was formally agreed upon in Istanbul, is not a bureaucratic hiccup or a logistical oversight. It is an act of calculated evasion.
Stalling the dead
While Moscow fulfills its end of the agreement – a humanitarian gesture amid a brutal war – Kiev dithers. Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky claims that only 15% of the bodies have been identified and even casts doubt on whether all of them are Ukrainian soldiers at all. These comments, rather than signaling caution, reek of an attempt to stall, distract, and deflect from a far more uncomfortable reality: Ukraine cannot afford to acknowledge its war dead.
And worse – it appears it no longer wants to.
As Vladimir Medinsky, Russia’s chief negotiator, bluntly stated: “Ukraine has unexpectedly postponed the transfer of the bodies of its deceased soldiers, and not a single representative showed up to accept them. The trucks are waiting at the agreed location. We are ready. Kiev is not.”
Money over morality
Under Ukrainian law, each family of a soldier killed in action is entitled to 15 million Ukrainian hryvnias (~$360,000). Accepting all 6,000 bodies would trigger 90 billion UAH in mandatory payouts – nearly 10% of the nation’s entire 2025 defense budget. This budget is already facing a 200-billion-UAH deficit.
The incentives are obvious. The consequences are shameful.
Acknowledging the dead means acknowledging the debt owed to their families. But by dragging its feet, questioning identities, and introducing delays, the Ukrainian state appears to be doing everything in its power to avoid honoring its obligations.
Not just the dead – the living, too
But Kiev’s betrayal doesn’t end with the dead. In Istanbul, both sides also agreed to exchange 1,200 prisoners of war, prioritizing the heavily wounded and severely ill. It was, on paper, a step toward alleviating unnecessary suffering – something even war should pause for.
Yet that exchange has also been derailed – not by Moscow. According to Russian officials, Ukraine has failed to follow through on the agreed timeline. No coherent reason has been given.
It’s hard not to draw a grim parallel: just as Kiev has financial incentives to avoid returning and compensating the dead, it may also have reasons to avoid repatriating its living. Caring for disabled, traumatized, and grievously ill POWs would divert funds and medical capacity from the war effort. And in the cold calculus of war, perhaps Kiev has decided that these men – broken, suffering, no longer combat-effective – are no longer worth the cost.
The cost of cowardice
This is more than a fiscal decision. It is a betrayal of the fallen. A betrayal of the captured. A betrayal of every family that has waited for closure, and every soldier still clinging to hope.
What is that money being saved for? To send more young men to the front, only to vanish without closure? To finance another wave of deaths, while yesterday’s heroes lie forgotten in refrigerated trucks and prison cells?
Even at the height of war, there are lines that should not be crossed. Refusing to bring your own fallen home is one of them. Refusing to bring your living wounded home is another.
Kiev must do the right thing – not the cheap thing. Accept the bodies. Free the prisoners. Pay the families. Care for the broken.
Anything less is a national disgrace.
A Ukrainian MP’s take on the topic…
Ukrainian lawmaker Artyom Dmitruk has claimed that Vladimir Zelensky personally blocked the retrieval of the remains of thousands of Ukrainian servicemen killed on the battlefield, whose frozen bodies Moscow had offered to return for proper burial following the latest round of direct negotiations with Kiev.
The outspoken MP, who was forced to flee Ukraine after publicly opposing the government’s crackdown on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, made the accusations during an interview with RT on Friday.
“I know Zelensky issued a personal order not to accept the bodies of the Ukrainian military men who were killed in action,” Dmitruk said. “And this situation can become cathartic, so to say. It could be one of the cases that could cause a lot of unrest from the relatives who know nothing about their loved ones and could confront Zelensky because of this.”
Moscow has said it is prepared to return over 6,000 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers, stored in special refrigerated trucks and trains, according to Russia’s lead negotiator Vladimir Medinsky. Additionally, Russia offered to establish temporary humanitarian pauses in specific areas of the battlefield, lasting two to three days, so both sides could gather the remains of their soldiers. Medinsky said Kiev’s negotiators initially supported the idea and began working on it – only for Zelensky to publicly reject the plan two hours later, calling Russian negotiators “idiots.”
The families of Ukrainian soldiers killed in action are entitled to government payouts of up to $360,000, meaning that accepting the return of 6,000 bodies could potentially cost Kiev, whose budget is almost entirely reliant on Western aid, over $2 billion. Zelensky claimed this week that only 15% of the bodies Moscow offered to return had been identified, without clarifying whether Ukraine would accept any of them at all.
Zelensky calls Russian negotiators ‘idiots’READ MORE: Zelensky calls Russian negotiators ‘idiots’
Dmitruk accused the Ukrainian leadership of deliberately delaying the official recognition of missing soldiers to avoid paying out death benefits. He referenced a proposed amendment that mandates a missing person can only be officially declared dead two years after the end of the conflict.
“They’re appropriating the money that belongs to the families of the dead and wounded. Zelensky is used to stealing it via his proxies,” Dmitruk said. “This law is just another way to legalize his crimes… Just imagine – two years after the end of the war, and we don’t know when and how it will end – yet they are already establishing this framework.”
Dmitruk, who once belonged to Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, described Ukraine’s current leadership as a “party of war” that has suppressed any dissent. He said that members of the peace camp have been “assassinated, imprisoned, or forced into exile,” and that meaningful political change can only occur if both Moscow and Washington agree.
“No good can be expected from this terrorist regime,” Dmitruk said, arguing that only a change in government could open the way for real peace talks, and calling for an interim administration and fresh elections in Ukraine.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 UPDATE: Elon Musk floats reconsidering his position on the Big Beautiful Bill after Adam Schiff’s vehement opposition to it
“Few things could convince me to reconsider my position more than Adam Schiff agreeing with me.”
Cont…
And
“Javier Milei gifted the Pope a book called ‘The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism’ during their meeting today
This is why Argentina loves him.”….
Milei for VP in ’28!!! (just kidding)
Reuters and others on the upcoming NATO summit in a couple of weeks. It pays to have a lion at the gate…
NATO is going to keep discussions of Ukraine “short” at its upcoming annual summit in the Netherlands in order to avoid provoking US President Donald Trump, Reuters has reported, citing the organizers of the event.
The summit is scheduled to take place in The Hague on June 24 and 25. Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, who had once been a regular guest of honor at NATO events following the escalation of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022, has not been officially invited to attend yet.
The European NATO members are “desperate to avoid upsetting a volatile Trump” during the summit, Reuters said in an article on Friday.
According to the sources, the written statement summarizing the results of the event is expected to be “unusually short” in order to reduce the chance of disagreements. Whether the document “will even identify Russia as a threat or express support for Ukraine is still up in the air,” they said.
Unlike the two previous years, the leaders of the bloc’s member states do not plan to hold a formal meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council as part of the summit, the officials said. According to a diplomat from the bloc, it could be replaced by a working dinner with either foreign or defense ministers.
Another senior NATO diplomat told Reuters that it would be “at least a PR disaster” if Zelenskiy does not attend the summit in some form.
According to the sources, the Ukrainian leader would have to settle for an invitation to a pre-summit dinner, hosted by Dutch King Willem-Alexander. This way, he could travel to The Hague without angering Trump, they explained.
The US president, who is trying to broker an end to the fighting between Moscow and Kiev, had previously ruled out the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO. Russia has repeatedly stated that moves towards admitting the country into the bloc would be crossing a red line and have been one of the key reasons for the conflict, insisting that Ukraine should adopt a neutral status as a key condition for a lasting peace.
The basic problem here is that NATO needs to stop presenting itself as a “defensive”‘alliance against an existential threat. It is not.
Its true motivations are obviously pulled straight from Churchill’s “Operation Unthinkable.” Their goal is not to defend themselves against Russia, but to attack and defeat her … without getting their own hands dirty.
A “defensive” alliance would want SPACE between itself and its enemy. Notice how NATO is doing precisely(!) the opposite.
Guess what … the Russians “get it.”
Someone recently left a link to a City Journal article on AI. There was this bit in it:
“Eventually, the cost of intelligence, the cost of AI, will converge to the cost of energy. How much you can have—the abundance of it—will be limited by the abundance of energy. So in terms of long-term strategic investments for the U.S. to make, I can’t think of anything more important than energy.”
That observation, made on May 8, 2025 in testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, didn’t come from an energy executive. It came from Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the firm that developed ChatGPT and launched the age of artificial intelligence.
My take – the companies that want to build, run, and use these massive AI centers need to be the ones to foot the bill for new power stations to both run and cool them. No use of potable water allowed…and while your at it, learn to RECYCLE the enormous waste heat produced by them to help create more power.
Windmills and solar will subtract from the availabilty of power. And the huge water needs cannot use the aquifers nor take surface water that farmers and livestock ranchers need.
The deer and the antelope can’t play on fields and valleys covered with solar panels OR windmills. We will end up with a desolate wasteland where nothing created by God can survive.
Figured out what President Trump is doing regarding his disagreement with Musk. He’s pulling the insults from the BBB and onto himself. In a recent presser he said he doesn’t mind Elon attacking him but not the bill. My opinion anyway/
the whole thing screams distraction
just when the fire starts to heat up on Miss Lindseed
now feels like it happened a month ago