Origins lost my patronage when they disinvited Larry Correia. (But were still happy to take his fiction) Ask your @PaizoOrgPlay I told Tonya the year it happened. @Paizo has already stated they don't want my help by branding half the country 'Fascist'.

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

The CA Legislature tried to strike these words from the state constitution in 2020 (put there by Prop 209 in 1996). The voters smacked them down when 57.23% said NO—despite the YES campaign outspending the NO team by more than 14 to 1. Now they’re trying again—calling it a “clarification” instead of an effort to gut the provision’s application to public education. Don’t believe them. If approved by the voters, this would be a major change. The aim is to pave the way for the recommendations of California’s Task Force on Reparations. The Task Force wants to make college free to African Americans no matter how well off their parents are and to get school districts to fund individual schools based on the race of the students who attend. @christopherrufo

I’ve always had respect for Massie. He was always -in my opinion - wrong about his approach but he was standing on heartfelt principles and had intellectual backing. He’s a nice guy. But comments like this make me question his authenticity. The USS Liberty incident is a tragic one, but it’s an incident with a clear conclusion if one uses any objective analysis of the facts. I thought Massie was capable of objective analysis. Perhaps he still is. Perhaps we are simply witnessing another example of the irresistible incentive to jump on the bandwagon of grifters that guarantee you a specific kind of social media audience and attention that ultimately results in profits.

The party that lionized KKK leader Robert Byrd is not going to ditch a Nazi candidate. They excuse themselves by claiming Republicans overlooked Trump’s flaws, but nothing Trump did compares with that, and Democrats have a long history of immoral duplicity for the sake of power.

WHAT WE GIVE ISRAEL The standard US military aid package is $3.8 billion per year $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing plus $500 million for joint missile defense programs. Israel must spend most of this on US-made products and services, and by 2028 essentially all of it must be spent in America. WHAT ISRAEL GIVES BACK 1. F-35 R&D Savings: 55 billion Israel resolved multiple technical issues during the F-35’s early development, reducing US R&D costs by an estimated $55 billion and accelerating deployment timelines.  The total F-35 program cost was $55 billion in R&D Israel’s combat testing effectively saved the US from having to discover and fix those problems on their own dime. 2. Intelligence Value: equivalent to 5 CIAs (75 billion/year) General George Keegan, former Chief of US Air Force Intelligence, stated that Israel’s intel value equals “5 CIAs” providing a 400% return on investment on the $3.8 billion aid package. One CIA budget runs approximately $15 billion.  Five times that equals roughly $75 billion worth of intelligence annually for $3.8 billion in aid. 3. Strategic Base Value: $15–20 billion/year As stated by Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and General Alexander Haig, Israel is the largest US aircraft carrier that does not require US military personnel on board, cannot be sunk, and is deployed in a critical region sparing the US the need to manufacture, deploy, and maintain real aircraft carriers with ground divisions, which would cost the US $15–20 billion annually.  4. F-35 Export Multiplier: $40 billion in sales, $173 billion backlog Israel’s battle-tested performance and upgrades to the F-35 contribute to $40 billion in US exports and a $173 billion backlog for US industry.  Israel essentially serves as the world’s most credible advertisement for American weapons. 5. Jobs and Economic Output: 255,000 jobs, $72 billion annually The F-35 economic engine alone supports 290,000 US employees and $72 billion in annual economic output.  Israeli stakeholders hold contracts with over 1,000 American companies across 48 states, DC, and Puerto Rico. Why do people need to lie about this? Because they have nefarious reasons. There’s no other reason to lie about this stuff.

I would never fly a plane into a single building. But here we are.

Abuse women, play victim, raise tons of money. It’s all so Palestinian.

They want to be in the minority. Easier to fund raise.

Any of my fellow X denizens, if you can, help her out. Sandy's one of the good ones. I don't ask for myself, so help her out if you can.

Dear Ken Doll, You’re absolutely right about how much MAGA hates black political power. I mean, it’s not like we want a Supreme Court full of Clarence Thomases, right? Or how we’re about to elect Byron Donalds in Florida, which is a deep red state. Or how we wanted Winsome Sears to win in Virginia, but you and your folks, including the NAACP, didn’t want that. Or how we wanted Tameka Hamilton and Charlotte Bergmann to win in their respective races, but were up against Democrat white dudes. Truth is, Democrats want “black political power” they approve of. They want black voices that further their narrative. They want black folks who are still happily on their plantation. You don’t want me and those like me. Then again, you’re a “Ken Doll” because you’re plastic, fake, and ball-less. I’m real. No hugs. Don’t want that sludge in your hair getting on me. Zeek

Berthold Beitz watched SS soldiers throw Jewish babies out of orphanage windows. August 7, 1942. Boryslaw, Poland. The SS was clearing out the Jewish orphanage. Beitz was 28 years old. A young German oil executive. He had been warned by the local police. He went to see what was happening. The SS were dragging children out of beds. Throwing infants out of upstairs windows. Loading them into trucks for the death camps. Beitz stood there and watched. He had a small daughter at home. About the same age. He went home that night and told his wife. He said: we have to do something. By the end of the war, Berthold and Else Beitz had saved 800 lives. Here's how he got there. Born September 26, 1913. Zemmin, Pomerania. A small German village. Son of a banker. Bert grew up in a normal middle-class German family. Some of his relatives liked the Nazis. He joined the Hitler Youth as a boy. Most German boys did. He trained as a banker. Then in 1939, at age 25, he joined Royal Dutch Shell. The big oil company. Worked in their Hamburg office. When the war started, Bert was in a special category. Oil experts were essential. He didn't get sent to the front. In 1941, the Germans needed someone to run the oil fields in occupied Poland. Boryslaw. A small town in eastern Galicia. Today it's in Ukraine. The oil fields there were important. Hitler needed oil to fuel his tanks. The German army needed every drop. Bert was sent to Boryslaw in April 1941. Made business manager of the Beskidian Oil Company. Later renamed Carpathian Oil. He brought his wife Else. Their baby daughter. They moved into a nice house in town. Then he saw what was happening to the Jews of Boryslaw. Boryslaw had been home to thousands of Jews for centuries. Many of them worked in the oil industry. Engineers. Chemists. Lab assistants. Office workers. When the Germans arrived, the killings started. SS units. Ukrainian collaborators. Death squads. Jews were rounded up. Shot in mass graves outside town. Or sent to camps. Belzec death camp was nearby. Auschwitz was a few hours away. Bert watched it happen. Years later he tried to explain why he did what he did. He said it wasn't politics. He said it wasn't anti-Fascism. He said: "When you see a woman with her child in her arms being shot, and you yourself have a child, then your response is bound to be completely different." He started small. The Carpathian Oil Company employed Jewish workers. They wore badges with the letter "R" on them. Standing for Rüstungsarbeiter. Armaments worker. Essential to the war. These workers were officially protected. The SS couldn't take them. They were too valuable. Bert started expanding the definition. A Jew came to him. Said his brother was being deported tomorrow. Said his brother was a tailor. Bert wrote out a paper. Said the brother was a "petroleum technician." Essential to the oil fields. Couldn't be touched. Then a hairdresser. A "petroleum technician." Then a Talmudic scholar. A "petroleum technician." Years later, Bert remembered it: "I chose tailors, hairdressers, and Talmudic scholars and gave them all cards as 'petroleum technicians.'" He didn't know any of them. Didn't ask. Just signed. Then he started doing something more dangerous. When the SS organized deportations, trains would arrive at the Boryslaw station. Jews would be loaded into cattle cars. Sent east to the camps. Bert started showing up at the trains. He would push past the SS guards. Walk into the cars. Shout that this man, that woman, that child, was an essential worker for his oil fields. He needed them back. The German war effort needed them back. The SS didn't always argue. Bert was a German civilian executive. He had powerful friends in Berlin. The oil mattered. He pulled people off the trains. Sometimes one at a time. Sometimes in groups. In 1945 alone, he and his team pulled about 220 Jews off deportation trains. Else was doing more. His wife was 22 when they moved to Boryslaw. Pregnant with their second daughter. She turned their family home into a hiding place. The cellar. The attic. The spare rooms. When Jewish parents knew they were going to be killed, they brought their children to Else. She hid them. Fed them. Kept them quiet when the SS came to visit. Sometimes there were dozens of children in the house. Jewish children. The Beitz daughters grew up playing with them. The SS visited often. Bert and Else would entertain officers in the dining room while Jewish children sat silent in the cellar below. If the SS had checked the cellar, the whole family would have been killed. The children. Bert. Else. Their daughters. The penalty for hiding Jews in occupied Poland was death. They did it anyway. In early 1943, the Gestapo finally came for him. Two Jewish girls had been caught on a train to Hungary. They had forged work permits. The forged permits had Bert's signature on them. Bert was called in for questioning. Faced the Gestapo. He didn't crack. He said the permits were forgeries. Said he had no idea who had signed his name. He had a story prepared. He had powerful supporters. The oil company needed him. The Gestapo let him go. They warned him to be more careful. Word spread among the Jews of Boryslaw. They knew what had happened. They knew what was at stake. In March 1944, the war turned worse for Germany. Bert's protected status ended. He was drafted into the army at age 30. He fought on the Eastern Front for the last year of the war. His protection of the Jews of Boryslaw ended. Most of the Jews he hadn't been able to save were killed. But the 800 he had saved were still alive. When the war ended, the survivors found him. Letters poured in from Israel. From America. From across Europe. Jews who had been pulled off the trains. Children who had hidden in his cellar. Workers whose forged papers had said "petroleum technician." They came to thank him. Many of them sent testimonies to Yad Vashem. Israel's Holocaust memorial. They wanted Bert and Else honored. In 1973, Yad Vashem named them Righteous Among the Nations. Israel's highest honor for non-Jews who saved Jewish lives. Bert was 60 years old. He had spent 30 years rebuilding his career. He hadn't talked about Boryslaw much. He didn't think it deserved special attention. He went to Jerusalem to receive the medal. He cried during the ceremony. Here's what makes his story remarkable. Bert Beitz didn't stay a small oil executive. After the war, he came home to Germany. Found work in insurance. Then ran an insurance company in Hamburg. In 1953, he met Alfried Krupp. The head of the Krupp steel empire. The most famous family business in Germany. They had armed the Nazi war machine. Krupp had just been released from prison. Convicted of war crimes. Of using slave labor. Krupp needed someone clean to rebuild his company. Someone with no Nazi past. Someone respected. He hired Bert Beitz. Bert spent the next 60 years running Krupp. Turning it into one of Germany's biggest companies. Building Krupp Steel into ThyssenKrupp. He became one of the most powerful businessmen in Germany. Met with chancellors. Met with presidents. Met with Soviet leaders during the Cold War. He once spent 21 hours straight in a meeting with Khrushchev. The Soviet premier. Talking about trade between East and West. He helped Germany rebuild itself after Hitler. He helped end the Cold War quietly. Behind the scenes. He was a member of the International Olympic Committee. Vice-President from 1984 to 1988. He never bragged about saving 800 Jews. His grandson said it once. "He never spoke about it. We had to read about it in the papers." When asked, late in life, why he had done it, Bert always said the same thing. "It wasn't heroism. It wasn't resistance. I was just a human being who saw what was happening." Else Beitz survived him by a year. Died in 2014, age 94. Their three daughters grew up. Had children. Have grandchildren. The descendants of the 800 they saved number in the thousands today. Spread across Israel. America. Europe. Many of them light a candle for the Beitz family every year. In Germany, Bert is remembered as the last great industrialist. The man who rebuilt Krupp. The Cold War diplomat. The Olympic leader. The 800 Jews he saved are barely mentioned in his German biographies. In Israel, he's remembered the other way. The German who saved 800 lives. Both versions are him. Same man. Same story. He died on July 30, 2013. Two months before his 100th birthday. He had gone to work every day until the end. Berthold Beitz. German industrialist. Hitler Youth boy. Royal Dutch Shell executive. Saw SS soldiers throw babies out of windows. Decided to fight back. Forged papers for tailors and rabbis. Hid children in his cellar. Pulled Jews off deportation trains. Saved 800 lives. His crime? Refusing to look away. His legacy? 800 families that lived. A medal in Jerusalem. A German empire he rebuilt. A grandson who only learned what he had done by reading the newspaper. Some heroes shout about what they did. Some never stop talking about it. Bert Beitz lived 71 years after the war and barely mentioned it. He thought saving 800 lives was just being human. That's all it was. That's everything./

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I'd hoped to make people see reason. To make my gene-sister understand that calling for the destruction of Israel on 8/10/23 wasn't going to save her from the pogrom. That appeasing the alligator doesn't keep you from being eaten. I'm past that.

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I can help with that. How far back shall we go? The grand mufti Amin Al Husseini, in 1918, didn’t want Jews to return to their own land because he was an Arab nationalist who hated Jews and wanted a return to the caliphate of Greater Syria, even though King Faisal did want them to. So Al Husseini formed militias long before any Jewish militias were formed, and instigated pogroms and massacres against the Jews. This went on for 15 years before the Jews even hit back. Then in 1936 he instigated an Arab uprising against the Jews and the British, killing many. The British defeated the Arabs but then WW2 started so to calm the situation the British prevented more Jewish migration to the land which resulted in about a million Jews being trapped in Europe and murdered by the Nazis. Amin Al Husseini fled to Iraq then Italy and then Germany where he was the guest of Hitler and together formed an alliance to exterminate all the Jew in Europe and the Middle East. He even formed entire Nazi units made up of Muslims. That led the Jews to form Irgun and hit back at the Arabs. This went back and forth for a decade until the UN partition plan of 1947 which the Jews accepted and again the Arabs rejected. The Arabs the started a civil war with the Jews in November 1947, and in April 1948, after the Arabs were close to winning, the Jews had a breakthrough and killed the Arab general. A month later after the Arab armies instructed the Arabs on the land to leave so that they could wipe out all the Jews, Israel declared independence, and the armies of 5 Arab countries declared war. The Arabs lost, Israel won emphatically, and the Arabs who fled were denied the right to return. The Arabs being humiliated by being defeated by a tiny group of Jews cried and cried and cried. This is the Nakba. The Arab humiliation. But Gaza was under Egyptian rule and Samaria and Judea under Jordanian rule. And they still never gave the Arabs a state of their own. Because the Arabs were all Egyptian and Jordanian anyway. In 67, the Arabs waged war again and were defeated in just 6 days and we liberated Jerusalem for the first time in 1900 years. Then Arafat (nephew of al Husseini) and the KGB manufactured the Palestinian people who didn’t exist before then. He then tried a coup against the Jordanian king and lost and got kicked out of Jordan too. Then they did it to Lebanon as well. Then in 73 the Arabs waged war against israel, again, and lost, again. And the same cycle has continued ever since. Moral of the story: It’s Jewish land. Always has been. Always will be. Muslim Arabs start wars. Muslim Arabs lose wars. Muslim Arabs cry. And in 2026, we still have Muslim Arabs starting wars and losing wars and crying. The end✌🏼

I paraphrase Groucho about my job. "The secret to customer service is honesty and empathy. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

Agree 100%. Pressure on all fronts, Unconditional Surrender.

This. So much this

We're already seeing The Plan. Run Thomas Massie as an independent Presidential candidate in 2028 on the "It's all the fault of the Jews" platform, split the conservative vote, and elect President AOC. It will be like Ross Perot and Fritz Julius Kuhn had a love child who ran for President.