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The revelations six years later are pouring out so quickly that it is impossible to keep up much less mentally process all this: * The Director of National Intelligence has documented 120 US-funded/owned biolabs in 30 countries many of which are manufacturing and manipulating infectious diseases. * Senator Rand Paul's committee has released the receipts concerning US funding/backing of the manufactured SARS-CoV-2 virus/vaccine as part of this program. * Senator Johnson has produced definitive evidence that US public health agencies knew of the grave dangers of the shot to everyone but said nothing. * Many officials are privately admitting/proving that the whole point of lockdowns was to preserve population immunity for the shot and block other avenues toward wellness. * Hardly any of this makes the national news and one wonders if the public mind has any awareness at all.
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Inspired by this incredible playoff run, here’s my latest watercolour sketch featuring the Canes bench: Sebastian Aho, Logan Stankoven, and Seth Jarvis. Prints available Who should I paint next? I hope you like it! 😊🙏 Go Canes Go! ❤️🖤 🎨 MikeNguyenArt.com
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I’ve been very interested in meteorology since I’ve become a pilot, so I looked into taking some college courses on the subject, and even considered the possibility of getting an associate degree in the subject, because, why not, right? That’s when I discovered that the meteorology portion of the degree is basically 3 classes totaling 15 credits and the remaining 45 credits required for the degree were absolute trash liberal indoctrination bullshit courses and electives. I have zero doubt as to why these kids are so fucked up and broke now. 3/4 of the requirements have zero to do with the subject matter, and they are required to get the degree. Absolutely insane, college is a sham.
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Here is a story about a group of students who fundraised and worked for an entire year to bring Neil de Grasse Tyson to speak at an event: "We were a small college club with around 10 members and on a whim one of our members emailed tyson's agent to see if we could book him. We found out it would cost 40k (it raised to 50k in December of that year where I think it still might be) for his speaking fee plus expenses to have him come to our college for 1 day where he'd host a small lecture, a press meeting, dinner with up to 6 people, and the main lecture and a book signing time permitting. We decided to go for it, and spent a year where our club exclusively worked on bringing him in. When he arrived, myself and others introduced ourselves and our fields of study. He went after first of us in humanities or soft sciences pretty much relentlessly from the get go. We're all used to the philosophy major working at McDonald's joke, but he wasn't trying to be funny, and spent the ride from the airport making repeated comments about the uselessness of our majors. Additionally he spent about 5 minutes trying to show that logic was stupid but he was citing logical rules and Occam's razor. The small lecture was him bragging about how famous he was, and how easy it is to pull yourself out of poverty or etc. The dinner was for leaders of other clubs so helped us raise money. He took the piss out of how one student held her fork, and was impossibly smug when giving advice to physics students. The main event was a terribly boring lecture consisting of fart jokes and fan service; teasing the upcoming TV series he was in and not much else. He spent a quarter of the time reading Sagan's blue dot, which is nice but shouldn't have cost us because it wasn't his material. He left at about 2am, and we were all exhausted because we had spent the day busy setting up and tearing down. The whole affair cost nearly 85k. The additional money being for locations, personnel, air fare, Tyson's hotel, catering, etc. We all decided he was an ass hole. I'd never want to spend 16 hours with a celebrity again." From another member of the same group: "Neil deGrasse Tyson, who came to our university, gave a crappy speech rife with lame fart jokes, was rude and disrespectful with the people who organized the event (there were a couple campus clubs working on it for about a year). He equated one of the group's member's philosophy major as a degree in mental masturbation. We were so pumped to hear a talk about the universe, astrophysics, black holes and dark matter, and instead he gave a speech on debunking lame pop media science misconceptions such as the "supermoon" because the organizing club is known as a skeptic/secular humanist society. He then basically said he did us a favor and that we "owed him one" for that. He delivered a private lecture to our group and members of the campus physics club in which he realized he had said something witty, whipped out hsi iphone, and spent the next fifteen minutes trying to come up with the perfect wording for it to post it to his twitter. In the middle of a lecture we spent a year's work and $55k total to organize."
I think Neil de Grasse Tyson just plain sucks. He has none of the depth of Carl Sagan, none of the humility Hawking, nor scientific accomplishments. He is a gotcha sound-byte narcissist, an absolute dead weight to society, he just fucking sucks
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You know what’s sad? It took a bunch of appreciative, curious foreign visitors exploring our incredible nation for some Americans to get it. They’ve become our new best friends sharing their newfound excitement.🔥 They’re out here wide-eyed, jaws dropped at the neon glow of Times Square, the soul-shaking majesty of the Grand Canyon blazing orange at sunset, the salty freedom breeze whipping through California redwoods, and the mouthwatering sizzle of a proper Texas BBQ under endless blue skies. And Democrats bitch… They’re snapping pics of NYC skylines piercing the clouds, cheering at Fourth of July fireworks lighting up the heavens like stars on steroids, and vibing to jazz in New Orleans streets and getting tours from sports teams. And Democrats bitch… Shoutout to every tourist who reminded us: America ain’t just a country, it’s a full-on vibe. A chaotic, beautiful, opportunity-packed fireworks show of a place. Wake up, Democrats! Fall back in love with your own backyard. The world already sees the magic — now it’s your turn. ❤️💥 For the rest of you Americans, what’s YOUR favorite slice of this epic nation?
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The vibes couldn’t be more immaculate in America right now

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I don't know what photographer to credit for this one, because I found it on social media being passed around, but this is another work of art. Shout out to Nikolaj Ehlers for the pass, and Svech for the goal (and smile). #SoundTheSiren
This should be hanging in an art gallery. Shout out to Nikolaj Ehlers for the goal. Shout out to @jp_lavs for the photography. #SoundTheSiren
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Customs will be interesting. "How much did you spend on items you are bringing back." "Nothing sir, they were gifts" "Cmon, stop kidding me. Oh, wait, are you that Freddie? Can I get a picture?"
Replying to @FreddyLA7
We’re only travelling with hand luggage, need to find out how to get all of this back home😭😭😭
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I think he speaks for many of us that are tired of this support for illegals.
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It is criminal that our government enabled a bat virus to infect and spread between humans. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a bigger betrayal of our species. It is equally troubling that the mad scientists who did this then gaslit all the people of the world about it, including those who CORRECTLY interpreted the evidence. Then, of course, the very same monsters amped up fear of the Covid frankenvirus and steered the panicked public away from safe medicines, and toward an obviously dangerous gene-therapy which they falsely called a vaccine in order to lure us into acceptance. These are among the greatest crimes EVER committed against humanity. We now have persuasive evidence of everything I have said above. If we don't correct the record and hold the perpetrators to account, this pattern will happen again, and again, and again--shortening our life expectancy, and degrading our quality of life each time that it does. This is our Nuremberg moment. We can not simply move on from this ghastly chapter of history. We must finish it. @brownstoneinst
Replying to @RandPaul
@RandPaul DOCS: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/… "SARS-CoV-2 is an American-created recombinant bat vaccine, or its precursor virus. It was created by an EcoHealth Alliance program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)."
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To is the best example of Democrats thinking it is the government's money, not ours. So any excess is a crime that needs to be solved.
This the basic difference. Republicans believe that that if you let the wealthy spend capital it will make Americans prosperous. Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive.
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The year is 1949. The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain. The year is 1956. Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over. The year is 1966. A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots. The year is 1979. Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005. The year is 1985. Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning. The year is 1992. There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top. Now it is today. Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with. So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now. Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one. It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.
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“Elon Musk is a trillionaire.” As a securities law attorney, please allow me to explain how anyone who says this is basically lying to you: 1. The Securities and Exchange Commission has a myriad of laws that prevent founders and other large stockholders of publicly traded companies from dumping their shares. There are substantial holding period requirements, volume of sales limitations and public reporting obligations for stock sales. Basically, Elon holds largely illiquid shares, he is a “trillionaire” on paper only, and the best analogy is when people peg your net worth based on your home’s market price. That’s not money in your pocket, that’s the house you live in. 2. All that money raised in the IPO? That’s not going into Elon’s pocket like the lying socialist idiots want you to believe. It’s a capital influx that will be used to make more rockets and get more payloads into orbit. It’s a CAPITAL investment—that money is like a business loan, it’s not your money to keep, it’s your money to grow the business. 3. If it WERE legal for Elon to dump his shares, the share price would crash basically instantly and the company could very well fail. If you bought SpaceX shares in the IPO, congrats. You just bought a lottery ticket, just like Elon. May the odds ever be in your favor. So the next time someone screeches about how unfair it is that Elon Musk creates wealth that benefits all of humanity, throw the truth back in their faces.
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via The Heinlein Society on FB.
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The posts from World Cup Europeans seeing actual America has been great. The shock and awe is hilarious. I think it's because their perspective has been based on TV shows (overwhelmingly set in LA or NYC, which get everything wrong about the rest of the nation because the writers are usually provincial liberal dorks who despise the rest of the country) and when they do come here as tourists it is to the same handful of tourist places. Which are always artificial, weird, and crowded. It turns out that when you get away from our big stupid blue cities, and all the societal decay that comes from liberals not being able to govern worth a shit, America is actually really awesome. I've been to 45 US states. I've enjoyed all of them. Even the blue ones, once I'm away from the parts that are entirely paved where lawless crazy people are allowed to shit in the streets and threaten everyone. It's just a collapse of leadership, and democrats being inept, not giving a fuck as long as they're still getting paid, or actively rooting for society's destruction because they're deluded morons who think they're going to build a socialist utopia from the ashes. America has managed to isolate that retarded shit tier philosophy mostly to our big blue city liberal enclaves, where lawless dumb shit can rule, while the rest of us live relatively normal lives, and our politics are primarily based on keeping those assholes away from our stuff as much as possible. But the cool Europeans have been trapped on a continent where that philosophy rules EVERYWHERE. They've got nowhere to escape from their mediocre control freaks. Their shocking discovery that normal sane people can still just do things, and make things, and build, and have fun, and be safe, and raise their kids, is what's making this whole thing fun. I don't follow soccer, futbol, whatever. But I am cheering on some Europeans right now. :D
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Replying to @EMBurlingame
They know by now. That's why they keep telling Bibi to do something stupid. It's clear now that my one hypothesis that Bibi was not still working with/for London is busted. Could be wrong, still... there could be a much deeper game afoot, but he's undermined Trump's getting to a deal enough times to consider this.
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Maybe in Canada PK Saban is a style icon. In North Carolina he looks like Kirkland brand Cam Newton.
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"I'm excited but not excited to see my dad tonight." - Nik Ehlers of @Canes, who took two puck over the glass penalties in Game 5. His father has been a hockey coach for 25 years.
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In Bussi We Trust. #StanleyCup
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