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Goldhedge said:
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The buck stops...guess where.

It stops with the chief law-enforcement officer of the Untied Skates.

No, not the AG. The person the AG WORKS (worked?) for.

The person who is BLOCKING prosecution of the Epstein Key Club, of the Fake Vaxx mass-poisonings, of the invasion by 40 million...PAID FOR WITH OUR OWN GOVERNMENT MONIES.

And, this.

If Trump won't defend himself...why should I care? The solution is simple. All he lacks is the will.

And you and I and this poster on TwitterX...we have NO input. In fact, those who've TRIED to influence things, face the combined wrath of Trump, AIPAC, the RINO-N-C; and the election algos. Like one Thomas Massie.

So. No matter how much they tormented, and will torment, him...Trump, in his senility, will revert to old habits learned 60 years ago, and clasp hands with the Demo-Leftists.
 
  • President Donald Trump is set to head to France for the annual summit of the Group of Seven nations.
  • The U.S. and Iran have yet to finalize an anticipated deal that would end the war, open the Strait of Hormuz and address Tehran’s nuclear program.
  • Trump said he will depart for the summit “immediately” after attending a mixed-martial arts fight that is set to take place Sunday evening on the White House’s South Lawn.
www.cnbc.com

Trump heads to G7 summit in France as world awaits Iran deal

The Iran war has drawn the world's focus, but the G7 is also likely to address Russia's war against Ukraine, which continues to rage in eastern Europe.
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com
 
“Name one thing the Republican Party has done for Black Americans?”

Say less, I was built for this question.

• 1863: Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring enslaved people in Confederate-held territory free.
• 1865: Republican-led Congress passed the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in the United States.
• 1866: Republican Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, establishing citizenship and equal civil rights.
• 1867: Republican Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts, requiring former Confederate states to protect Black male suffrage before rejoining the Union.
• 1868: The 14th Amendment was ratified, granting birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law.
• 1870: The 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.
• 1870-1871: Enforcement Acts passed to protect Black voting rights from violence.
• 1875: Civil Rights Act passed banning discrimination in public accommodations.
• 1922: House passed Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill to make lynching a federal crime.
• 1957: President Eisenhower signed Civil Rights Act creating Civil Rights Commission.
• 1957: President Eisenhower deployed troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock.
• 1960: President Eisenhower signed Civil Rights Act expanding Black voting protections.
• 1969: Nixon administration implemented Philadelphia Plan with minority hiring goals.
• 1969: Nixon administration launched programs supporting Black business and entrepreneurship.
• 1970s-2000s: Republican administrations expanded minority contracting preferences.
• 1983: President Reagan signed law establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday.
• 1991: President George H.W. Bush signed Civil Rights Act expanding discrimination remedies.
• 1996: Republican Congress passed welfare reform with work requirements and time limits.
• 1990s-present: Republican leaders advanced school choice and charter school programs.
• 2001: President George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind to close achievement gaps.
• 2017: President Trump signed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act creating Opportunity Zones.
• 2018: President Trump signed First Step Act for criminal justice and sentencing reform.
• 2023: Supreme Court struck down race-conscious college admissions, ruling against affirmative action policies at Harvard and UNC.
• 2025: President Trump signed an executive order ending DEI programs, mandates, preferences, and offices across the federal government.
• 2025–2026: Reestablished and expanded the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) focused on excellence, innovation, research competitiveness, and additional grant funding/support.
• 2025–2026: Continued and promoted Opportunity Zones investments aimed at economically distressed communities.
• 2025–2026: Further implementation and follow-on efforts on criminal justice reform (building on First Step Act).

 
Counterpoint - X link at bottom


Sovey I know you will enjoy this one. The hypocrisy with the demonrat party is astounding.

Historical Actions, Policies, and Patterns Associated with the Democratic Party

A — Authoritarianism & Anti-Democratic Tactics
Early 20th century progressive policies such as Wilson-era sedition laws, along with modern allegations involving primary rigging (2016 DNC), lawfare, ballot access challenges, and coordination with Big Tech on censorship.

B — Big Government & Bureaucracy
Expansion of federal power through the New Deal and Great Society programs, criticized by opponents for increasing dependency and bureaucratic growth.

C — Corruption & Cronyism
Political machines such as Tammany Hall, allegations of donor favoritism, influence peddling, and government waste.

D — Division by Race & Identity
Historical segregationist policies and modern identity-based politics that critics argue emphasize group differences over individual merit.

E — Eugenics
Progressive Era support for forced sterilization programs and policies associated with scientific racism.

F — Filibusters & Obstruction
Southern Democratic lawmakers used lengthy filibusters to oppose civil rights legislation.

G — Great Society Failures
Critics argue that anti-poverty programs contributed to long-term dependency and failed to eliminate persistent poverty.

H — Hypocrisy & Projection
Accusations that the party condemns behaviors in opponents while minimizing similar actions within its own history.

I — Immigration & Border Policies
Criticism of sanctuary policies, border enforcement approaches, and humanitarian challenges associated with recent immigration surges.

J — Jim Crow & Segregation
Southern Democratic governments enacted and enforced segregation laws throughout much of the post-Reconstruction era.

K — Ku Klux Klan
The KKK emerged in the post-Civil War South and included historical ties to Democratic political structures in that era.

L — Labor Union Ties & Corruption
Criticism of close relationships with organized labor and instances of union-related corruption.

M — Media & Big Tech Alliance
Claims of favorable relationships with major media organizations and technology companies that influence public discourse.

N — New Deal Racial Compromises
Programs that critics argue often disadvantaged Black Americans in order to maintain support from Southern Democrats.

O — Opposing Civil Rights
Historical opposition by many Democrats to Reconstruction policies and portions of the civil rights movement.

P — Poverty Policies & Urban Governance
Critics point to conditions in long-governed Democratic cities, including crime, homelessness, and struggling schools.

Q — Quotas & Affirmative Action
Policies involving race- or gender-based preferences that opponents characterize as discriminatory.

R — Racism (Institutional History)
Historical association with slavery, segregation, Black Codes, and discriminatory policies.

S — Slavery
Southern Democrats defended and expanded slavery prior to the Civil War. Republicans were founded largely in opposition to slavery’s expansion.

T — Tammany Hall & Machine Politics
Political patronage systems, voter manipulation, and corruption associated with urban political machines.

U — Underclass Creation
Arguments that welfare policies contributed to multigenerational dependency in some communities.

V — Vietnam & Foreign Policy Missteps
Criticism of LBJ-era escalation in Vietnam and broader interventionist policies.

W — Welfare & Dependency
Claims that welfare expansion weakened incentives for work and family stability.

X — eXtreme Cultural Policies
Criticism of progressive approaches to gender issues, education, and cultural debates.

Y — Youth Indoctrination
Concerns that public education increasingly prioritizes ideology over academic fundamentals.

Z — Zero-Sum Identity Politics
Critics argue that framing society through oppressor-versus-oppressed narratives undermines social cohesion.l

 


Elon Musk:

That super-duper-fantastically wealthy rich elite guy who keeps

[checks card]

showing up all the OTHER super-duper-fantastically wealthy elite rich folks by REINVESTING his wealth into companies that actually MAKE LIFE FAR BETTER FOR THE HUMAN RACE.

Which suprisingly enough [and confounding to zero-sum morons] leads to him becoming even MORE FANTASTICALLY WEALTHY when the human race responds by embracing and purchasing his various companies products and services.

The other billionaires buy large mansions and fleets of cars and wretched excessive hedonistic lifestyles [think Jeffrey Epstein or Reed Hoffman, for instance] then hire publicists to seed news media of the couple million dollars a year they give away to charity so they can drape the mantle 'great humanitarian' around their shoulders.

Musk is an actual humanitarian, and the reason all these other fantastically wealthy fake humanitarians don't like him all that much is because he's showing everyone in a quite concrete fashion what a real fantastically wealthy humanitarian would do, how they would live, and how they would invest their wealth as they continued to build it.

Musk has seen an opportunity with internet access [Starlink], social media/free speech [X ], electric FSD vehicles [Tesla], space travel/exploration/solar energy/AI advancement [SpaceX], and invested heavily and tirelessly in the creation of companies that could develop products and capabilities once thought to be impossible.

Absolutely NOTHING prevented ANY of these other billionaires from walking this same path that Musk walked for the past 30 years. Except poverty of imagination, lack of vision, or self-centeredness.

Currently we don't even have the full picture yet of exactly the scope of the public service of what Musk and his DOGE team did in those crucial early months of this new Trump administration last year, but hopefully we will one day.

Hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars that used to be regularly stolen and laundered to hundreds of thousands of NGOs around the world are no longer making that journey, and we have Musk and his team to thank for that. And I suspect he was involved in setting up blockchain capabilities and other things we'll be finding out about in the coming months.

He's the world's first trillionaire because he is serving not just his country, but all of mankind.

I'm glad it was him and not that fat prick Hoffman.

PS: I'm glad 90% of the zero-sum dumbass whining about Elon becoming a trillionaire is taking place on a communications platform that he owns. :)
 
Here is a long post worth reading

🧵Reversing The Curse. Revealing The Light. ⚡️

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Most people can sense that something in our country is shifting… but very few understand what they’re actually watching.

If our Republic was quietly being restored back to what our founders intended, would the signs look dramatic and obvious…
Or subtle, layered, and disguised as everyday events?

Would the fall of a corrupt fiat system show up in headlines…
Or would a new, sound monetary system quietly replace the old rails with something faster, cleaner, and incorruptible?

And if deeper truths about how the world actually operates were starting to surface…
Would the average person even believe?

Because once you zoom out, it becomes nearly impossible to deny that all three of these shifts are happening at the same time, whether people understand them yet or not.

Let’s go further… 🧵👇🏼

 
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