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I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is. University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages. Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures. There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them. If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything. Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings: Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them. Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

Yes, Senator. Prices are high and supply is low because we’ve buried child care under a regulatory avalanche, staffing ratios written by unions, endless licensing, zoning that treats a home daycare like a Superfund site, background checks, insurance mandates, and training requirements that turn “I like kids” into a six-month bureaucratic quest. Then we act shocked that normal people don’t want to wipe noses for $15 an hour while filling out seventeen forms.

The conspiracy theorists were right A new FDA data mining report shows they knew the Covid vaccine had 25 major side effects and they all conspired to hide it from the public Senator Ron Johnson’s Senate PSI Majority Staff Interim Report has been released on FDA data mining and the March 2021 analysis by Dr. Ana Szarfman There was a “masking” in the standard FDA system, where signals from Pfizer and Moderna reportedly cancelled each other out Meaning they lied and hid the side effects from the public and told you it was 100% safe and effective I have compared the whole list for you: Neurological & Dysautonomia • Bell’s palsy (Suppressed Signal) • Paraesthesia ear (Suppressed Signal) • Bradykinesia (Suppressed Signal) • Basal ganglia stroke (Suppressed Signal) • Cerebral artery occlusion (Suppressed Signal) • Thalamic infarction • Sinus rhythm abnormality • Agonal rhythm • Diaphragmatic spasm • Dementia (Pfizer) Cardiac • Sudden cardiac death (Suppressed Signal) • Acute left ventricular failure (Suppressed Signal) • Diastolic dysfunction (Suppressed Signal) • Ejection fraction abnormal (Suppressed Signal) • Hypertensive emergency (Suppressed Signal) • Blood pressure systolic changes (Suppressed Signal) • Aortic stenosis (Suppressed Signal) • Cardiac failure chronic • Acute myocardial infarction (Pfizer, Moderna) • Cardiac telemetry abnormal (Pfizer) (Suppressed Signal) Vascular & Pulmonary • Pulmonary infarction (Suppressed Signal) • Embolic stroke • Ischaemic stroke • Aortic aneurysm rupture • May-Thurner syndrome • Hypomagnesaemia (Suppressed Signal) Other • Cholecystitis acute (Suppressed Signal) • AST/ALT ratio abnormal • Mastoid disorder • Cardiac assistance device user • Brain natriuretic peptide increased • Asymptomatic COVID-19 (Pfizer) (Suppressed Signal) The FDA’s standard analytical method allegedly masked “obscured” statistical safety signals in the data Aka they lied

You are a taker, not a maker. All you’ve done your whole life is take from the makers of the world. The zero-sum mindset you have is at the root of so much evil. Once you realize that civilization is not zero-sum and that it is about making far more than one consumes, then it becomes obvious that the path to prosperity for all is just let the makers make. Regarding Tesla, the reality is that I have been given nothing. However, if I lead Tesla to become the most valuable company in the world by far and it stays that way for 5 years, shareholders voted to award me 12% of what is built. Anyone who wants to come along for the ride can buy Tesla stock. If Tesla “merely” becomes a $1.999 trillion dollar company, I get nothing. This is a great deal for shareholders, which is why they voted so overwhelmingly to approve this, for which I am immensely grateful. And they did so by a margin far more than you won your political seat.

EVEN EVEN MORE HILLARY In the summer of 1997, Bill Clinton visited Denmark. We landed on AF-1 in Copenhagen, boarded Marine One for a night time tour of the coast en route to Kronborg Castle, for Shakespeare the “home of Hamlet.” We landed at around midnight and were welcomed with open arms by the queen and her staff. Beautiful, historic castle. I was put up in the Scottish Military suite. Beautiful room with a fully appointed spread of meats, cheeses, breads, fruit, and a full bar. All served, of course, with fine china and crystal. After a phone call with my wife, I made sure POTUS was down for the evening and went to bed. The next morning, the queen had a breakfast spread for Clinton and the staff. Again, first class. As we headed to the motorcade to leave for an event and the flight home, I was pulled aside by the Danish military aide. “Buzz, we have a problem. Your staff stole the china and crystal from their rooms. And took other things as well.” I was stunned and chagrined. I apologized profusely and told him I’d handle it. I talked with Hillary and the White House chief of staff and told them what had happened. They both shrugged their shoulders. No apology. Nobody held accountable. No repayment. Just another day in the Clinton White House and a group of Ugly Americans. I don’t want to hear a damn word from @HillaryClinton about White House decorum. Not a word.

Love this theory. Let's run it. A sophomore builds a company out of his dorm room. Eats ramen, sleeps four hours, ships something nobody else could. A venture fund takes one look and says it's worth a billion dollars. Overnight, a kid with $40 in his account is a billionaire on paper. The campus loses its mind. One student worth a billion while everyone else drowns in loans? Student government passes a resolution. Tax him 5% a year, fund everyone's tuition. It's only 5%. He'd still be worth more than the entire graduating class combined. You don't think that's worth it? So they send him the bill. Except he doesn't have a billion dollars. He has $40 and a company a stranger guessed was worth a billion, as long as HE kept running it. To pay the tax, he has to sell. The moment he sells, the market learns the founder is cashing out to cover a tax he can't afford. The valuation collapses. The investors walk away. Now the company is dead. The twelve people he was about to hire never get hired. And the tuition fund that was supposed to come out of his billion contains exactly $40. The campus is stunned. We ran the math. Five percent of a billion is real money. Where did it go? It was never money. It was a bet on a PERSON AND THEIR IDEAS, and you cannot endlessly tax a bet without killing the thing it was betting on. How are you this stupid?

@HillaryClinton Ma’am, I was the Air Force Lt. Colonel who carried the nuclear football for your husband inside that “people’s house” you’re suddenly so precious about. I saw it all up close for two years. While Bill was getting blow jobs in the Oval Office from an intern and groping female Air Force enlisted crew on Air Force One, you and your staff treated the military with open disdain, like we were the help, not the men and women sworn to protect this nation. The disrespect for anything non-Clinton was palpable. You lecture about “respect for the institution” while your husband lost the nuclear codes and shrugged it off. And when you finally slinked out in 2001? You and your crew trashed the place—vandalism, theft, glue in drawers, obscene messages, stolen property, and filth left behind for the next administration. The GAO confirmed it. Classy exit from the “people’s house.” The White House belongs to the American people, not your grifting dynasty. They just elected a fighter who actually respects the military and the office. Keep ripping off poor kids in Haiti, selling your merch and clutching pearls. Sit down, bitch. The adults are back in charge.

Can we debunk this nonsense? Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc. The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun. End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously. And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it. The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year) On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach. So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

Cute theory, let's play it out. A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last. But... oh wait, there is no pile. It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded. The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it. Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0. The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession. But it gets worse. Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all. Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees. So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked. So the monkeys sit there. No bananas. No rockets. No coordinates to get more banananas. Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer. OH And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

With Tulsi Gabbard's new revelations about US bio labs in many countries around the world including Ukraine, it's fascinating recall the bizarre series of events that gave rise to this controversy in the first place: In May of 2022, some of us began asking whether the US had bio labs in Ukraine, what they were for, and why the US had them there. For asking those questions, we were instantly branded as "pro-Russian conspiracy theorists" in official Ukrainian intel reports, on our Wikipedia pages, by countless media outlets, etc. This was and remains one of the most bizarre episodes I've ever seen. Before May 2022, when we asked those questions, barely anyone had ever thought about let alone asked about "bio weapons in Ukraine"! I certainly hadn't. Like most people, I had never mentioned a word about it because it had never occurred to me we had them there. But then, Marco Rubio summoned Victoria Nuland to the Senate and asked her in a televised hearing under oath about these "rumors," clearly expecting her to immediately debunk them as obvious Kremlin lies and to proclaim the US had no such bio labs in Ukraine. Instead, Nuland did the opposite! She *confirmed* key aspects of these "rumors," and she explicitly warned that the US has several "bio research labs" in Ukraine that are so dangerous that they must not be allowed to fall into Russia's hands. When some of us heard Nuland's rather shocking admission -- the first-ever disclosure about these labs -- we of course asked: wait! what? Why does the US have bio labs in Ukraine, and what are the US and Ukraine doing in those labs that make them (in Nuland's eyes) so dangerous?? (Note: nobody ever suggested that the presence of these bio labs in Ukraine justified the Russian invasion; we just wanted answers about these US bio labs that Nuland had casually divulged). We never got real answers. We got smear campaigns. To this day, our names are formally attached to claims that we spread "conspiracy theories" for asking about these labs even though it was Victoria Nuland herself who was the one who accidentally revealed them for the first time in a Senate hearing in response to a shocked Marco Rubio. They then quickly tried shutting down any questioning by pretending that Nuland never said this, and it was just a bunch of paid Kremlin mouthpieces who were spreading lies. You see the same tactics now being against Tulsi for releasing this new intelligence report. Watch the Nuland testimony in question:

RT @mattdykema: We worked 16–18 hour shifts producing the first versions of the Falcon 9 thrusters. To this day, it is still the hardest m…

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.

Important to note 10 years ago this would've been a Democrat US Senator meeting with these guys. If you wanted a visual and there's many out there of how much our politics have changed this is surely one of them.

Since I’m still trending, just wanted to take the opportunity to remind our Senate that part of the reason we have 53 Republican colleagues today & not 52 is because of Pennsylvania. Senator Bob Casey Jr. was defeated by a mere 15,000 votes. I would also like to remind our Senate that you would have an even greater majority today had you secured our elections years ago. In 2024, we should have won AZ, MI, NV, & WI. If you take into account the debacle of the 2020 election followed by Georgia Senate runoff elections, Republicans should have closer to 60 seats. So, if you pass the SAVE America Act, you will be rewarded with votes & likely bigger majorities. If you do not pass the SAVE America Act, then I can guarantee that Louisiana & Texas won’t be the last time that incumbent Senators were defeated — peacefully & respectfully.

Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax

It’s even worse than you thought in California. The SEIU union pumps millions into political candidates, while their members are the ones counting the mail ballots. What could possibly go wrong?

I don’t think the people Trump is “negotiating” with in Iran, are on the same team as the IRGC. I think Trump already has a deal in place with the next regime, and they are covertly working with Trump to facilitate the transition, while circumventing the rogue IRGC, and much of what we see is just theater. The Iranian People are being held hostage by this radical Islamic regime, and Trump is trying to surgically eliminate any rogue elements, while not completely destroying Iran’s future. We want to preserve the nation for the Iranian People, and free them from the shackles of this illegitimate regime. I think there’s much more going on than we can see, and that is by design. Victory is already secured, it’s just a matter of a smooth transition.

🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The full story of the downed Apache is even wilder than first reported, and it just revealed a secret U.S. mission... The Iranian Shahed slammed directly into the helicopter's canopy, and its warhead-packed nose cone burned inside the aircraft without ever exploding. The pilot ditched into the water fast enough for both crew members to jettison what was left of the canopy and climb out seconds before the $50 million aircraft sank. The bigger reveal is why it was flying at all. Trump disclosed the Apache was part of a covert operation running since last month to escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, using fighters and helicopters to shield ships from Iranian drones and missiles. The results: more than 100 million barrels of oil and 200 commercial ships moved through the strait Iran claims to control. The crew survived a drone to the cockpit by seconds. The mission they were guarding stayed secret until the day after they hit the water. Source: Wall Street Journal / Writers: Daniyal, Daniel