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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
JetBlue is headed for bankruptcy. How did it get here? In 2022 it offered $3.8 billion for Spirit. On Friday, all of JetBlue was worth $990 million. Fuel is the easy excuse. I count 7 wrong moves.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
Bolsonaro stronghold regions had already closed their polling stations. My understanding from elections past is that once the vote is finalized in the machine you can’t just turn it back on for more voting. Leftist areas did not shut off their machines or close polling stations. They were prepared. This is an attempt to steal the election.
The Supreme Electoral Court in Brazil has extended voting by a couple more hours
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
🚨 COUP: In American terms, what Brazil's Supreme Court just did in tonight's election to Bolsonaro is let a place like deep-blue Broward County FL keep voting while red Lee County has to shut their polls down. Let Detroit vote while Macomb can't. Let Dane and Madison WI vote while the red WOW counties can't. Let Philly vote while Butler and Westmoreland can't. HOW IS THIS ALLOWED?! If this happened in America, there would be thousands in the streets. WAKE UP, BRAZIL!!
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: The Brazil Supreme Court just launched a coup attempt, EXTENDING voting hours after polls were already closing — but the extension will primary help LULA (leftist) JURISDICTIONS because many of those areas did not "close" yet when the order was handed down Translation: Lula-friendly areas get more time than Bolsonaro-friendly areas...and this was ordered by Lula's former personal defense attorney, whom Lula appointed to the Supreme Court in 2023 OH MY GOSH!! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING! Major Bolsonaro strongholds had already closed. So if this rule holds, those areas cannot restart counting Watch Brazil CLOSELY tonight. If Bolsonaro pulls this out, it will be a MASSIVE TRIUMPH — even more than it previously would have
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
Replying to @chamath
Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers. SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue. That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
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Hey Fraud King 👑 We’re not waiting for them to vote. You’re not allowed to have any noncitizens on your voter rolls. “Period. Full stop.” It doesn’t matter if some haven’t voted in a prior election. Stop playing games. Work with us to quickly verify the names we provided and prevent noncitizens from diluting the votes of American citizens. If you’re so convinced we’re wrong, prove it. We can clear this up in days and give everyone confidence in the upcoming election. What are you afraid of?
Trump’s DOJ is so desperate to invent “widespread voter fraud,” it sent California counties lists of people who NEVER voted — and voters from the WRONG COUNTY. Absolute clown show!
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
This might be the wildest minimum wage statistic I've ever seen. In 1971, the federal minimum wage was $1.60 per hour. Gold averaged $40.92 per ounce. It took 26 hours of minimum-wage labor to earn an ounce of gold. In 2025, the federal minimum wage was $7.25. Gold averaged $3,432 per ounce. It took 473 hours of labor to earn that same ounce. Your hourly wage increased 4.5× in dollars. The amount of labor required to acquire gold increased 18.5×. Measured in gold, the federal minimum wage lost approximately 95% of its value. Fifty-four years of nominal wage increases, and one hour of work buys a fraction of the monetary asset it once did.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
🚨BREAKING🚨Voter Suppression??Southlake, Texas, residents are FURIOUS that a Hindu Diwali festival is restricting access to the Town Hall early voting location. Southlake is heavily Republican city. We are reaching out to the Mayor for comment. @Carlos__Turcios @DallasExpress
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
UNBELIEVABLE: Democrats and George Bush broke federal immigration law for so long, creating false barriers to deportation like this ridiculous idea that illegals are entitled to bond when federal law says the opposite. Trump is now having to get rulings saying he can go back to following actual federal law again.
Huge decision from the 5th Circuit. Illegal aliens arrested by ICE can, in fact, be detained without bond, even if they’ve lived in the U.S. for decades, overturning three lower Fed judges. From concurrence: “A nation ceases to be a nation if it can't protect its borders." This was an 11-6 ruling with the entirely of the 5th Circuit (en banc).
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
"Absolutely not."… that is what Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson told KUTV when she was asked if she would ever hand the Justice Department the voter rolls, and now she is taking a victory lap because Judge David Barlow tossed the DOJ case Friday with prejudice so it cannot even be refiled. Let me explain what this is actually about. The DOJ asked for the complete, unredacted voter registration list, the kind of data you need to match a name on the roll to a real driver's license number, a real Social Security number and a real date of birth, and the argument was simple… the Civil Rights Act of 1960 gives the attorney general the authority to inspect voter registration records to make sure states are actually maintaining their rolls. She offered the public list instead, the same list any campaign can get its hands on, and when they said that does not do the job she dug in and said absolutely not. So ask yourself a simple question. If your rolls are clean, why fight this hard to make sure nobody outside your office can check them? Why is the chief election officer of one of the reddest states in the country celebrating the fact that nobody gets to verify the list her own office keeps? How is this even a thing? I am all for privacy, and yet this is not some hacker or some marketing firm asking, it is the federal government asking whether the people on the rolls are real, alive and eligible, which is the entire point of having a roll in the first place. Privacy is the shield they always grab when someone wants to look under the hood, and it works every time because nobody wants to be the guy who argues against privacy. And make no mistake, this is a Republican. Not Jena Griswold, not some blue state secretary of state, a Republican lieutenant governor in Utah doing the exact thing the left would do and calling it a win for fair and secure elections. Meanwhile the DOJ is sending about six lawyers and paralegals to watch Utah polling places in November, and Harmeet Dhillon says that has nothing to do with Henderson. Fine… watch closely anyway. Deidre… if the rolls are clean, prove it and hand them over. @realDonaldTrump take this one to the Tenth Circuit.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
BOOM. The Great Reclamation has begun. The Supreme Court just restored Trump’s constitutional power to remove rogue commissioners from federal agencies. For the first time in ninety years, the President can clean house. The walls of bureaucratic tyranny are cracking. Since 1935, the presidency has been a hostage. A hidden ruling called Humphrey’s Executor v. United States created a shield around unelected bureaucrats buried inside so-called independent agencies. They could not be fired. Not by Congress. Not by the people. Not even by the Commander in Chief. These were the Deep State’s castles inside the government. Protected. Untouchable. Writing rules with the power of law while answering to no one. For decades, they dictated policy, destroyed accountability, and made every president a figurehead in his own house. That ended this week. In a ruling few expected but history will never forget, the Supreme Court confirmed that President Trump has full constitutional authority to remove Democratic commissioners Mary Boyle, Richard Trumka Jr, and Alexander Hoehn-Saric from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Court reminded the nation that executive power belongs to the President alone. Not to agencies. Not to boards. Not to faceless lawyers. The 6-3 decision has detonated the foundation of bureaucratic immunity. Trump can now terminate any commissioner who obstructs reform, dismantle ideological mandates, and reclaim executive control over agencies that have operated like private empires. The ruling sets a precedent that can sweep through every corner of the federal maze — FTC, SEC, NLRB, CDC, FDA, DOE. Hundreds of unelected operators who hid behind the term “independent” are now exposed. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is only the beginning. Nearly 700 positions across Washington fall under the same model. With this judgment, Trump holds the legal weapon he was denied in his first term. The sword is back in his hands. Inside the Deep State, panic has already begun. For decades, they didn’t need to win elections. They only needed to control who stayed behind. By embedding loyal operatives inside untouchable posts, they guaranteed their agenda survived every presidency. They wrote laws under the cover of regulation. They censored industries through “safety standards.” They shifted policy without ever standing for a vote. That structure is now collapsing. This decision is not about staffing. It’s about sovereignty. The hidden coup that began ninety years ago has been reversed. The unelected state no longer outranks the elected one. The legal scaffolding that protected the regime is being dismantled piece by piece. That is why the media is silent. They understand what this means. If Trump uses this authority — and he will — the entire architecture of shadow governance will fall. Agencies that weaponized policy for ideology will be stripped of power. Mandates will be rescinded. Political infiltrators will be removed. The Deep State’s invisible army is finally within reach. Trump’s second term begins now, with the power he was denied in 2016. The presidency is no longer a cage. It is a command post. He can purge the administrative state, rebuild federal institutions that answer to the people, and restore a government that serves its citizens instead of its masters. This is The Great Reclamation. The end of ninety years of executive humiliation. The day the balance returns. The Deep State buried the presidency under red tape and called it democracy. But the chains have been cut. And Trump now holds the axe.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
“He jailed socialists, so he wasn’t a socialist.” This is the argument every single person in my replies thinks is a mic drop. It’s actually the weakest one available, and it collapses in five seconds. Lenin banned the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries. Both were socialist parties. By your logic, Lenin wasn’t a socialist. Stalin shot Bukharin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and sent an ice axe through Trotsky’s skull. All of them were founding fathers of the Bolshevik revolution. By your logic, Stalin wasn’t a socialist. Mao purged Liu Shaoqi, the President of the People’s Republic, and let him die in a cell. Pol Pot murdered his own cadres by the thousands. Robespierre sent Danton to the guillotine, then got the guillotine himself. There’s a reason Vergniaud said the Revolution, like Saturn, devours its own children. Purging rival socialists isn’t evidence against collectivism. It’s one of its most reliable signatures. Why? Because when the state decides everything, there can only be one plan. Two factions with two plans for the same economy can’t coexist. One has to disappear. In a free society, disagreements get settled by markets and elections. In a planned society, they get settled by the secret police. Hitler crushing the SPD and the KPD, then murdering Röhm and Strasser in his own party, is exactly what you’d predict from a regime competing for the same thing: total control of the economy and of society. And that’s the real question. Not “what did he call himself” and not “who did he arrest”. The question is: who runs the economy? Under the Nazis, independent unions were abolished and replaced by a state labor front. Prices and wages were frozen by decree. Investment was directed by a Four-Year Plan. Private property existed on paper, as long as owners did exactly what the state told them to do. Hayek saw this in real time. He dedicated The Road to Serfdom “To the socialists of all parties” precisely because he understood that the planners of the left and the planners of the right were the same species. Collectivism isn’t a color on the political spectrum. It’s the belief that a central authority can and should direct the economy. Once you accept that, the purges, the camps and the one-party state aren’t accidents. They’re the operating manual. So no, “he jailed communists” doesn’t refute anything. Communists jailed communists for seventy years. Read Hayek. Then come back.
This probably hits hard if you failed history in high school. Hitler was a far-Right fascist whose party was named the National Socialist German Workers' Party to attract working-class voters. Then he banned the Social Democratic and Communist parties, and sent socialists and communists to concentration camps.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
This is literally their plan to end democracy in America
The playbook will go something like this: 1) win back the House and Senate, and hopefully the Presidency in 2028; (2) admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, which doesn’t need a constitutional amendment, to gain 4 new Senate seats and cement control; (3) pack the Court, which only requires a change to the Judiciary Act of 1869, not a constitutional amendment; (4) eliminate the electoral college, which is unconstitutional, but not when you have a rigged court that finds the ‘loophole’; (5) flood the country with pliant migrants, swamp the natives, and hold power indefinitely.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
Here is Keith Ellison wearing a shirt stating “yo no creo en fronteras,” which translates to “I don’t believe in borders.” Certifiably insane.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
Many don’t yet grasp the seriousness of the French crisis. Markets have priced French debt as junk. The 10-year spread over German bunds has blown out to 174 bp, wider than Italy, Greece or Portugal, despite France’s AA-range S&P rating. The market concludes France’s fiscal arithmetic is broken and politically unfixable. Public spending remains among the highest in the developed world (57% of GDP), an absurd tax burden already crushes growth potential, and the political system is paralyzed. Meaningful reforms have been impossible for years. When governments try, the unions and street response is rapid and often violent. Recent riots made the constraint explicit, any serious attempt to cut spending or raise the retirement age risks further unrest that damages business confidence, tourism and tax revenues. The short-term fiscal hit is already visible, the longer-term confidence channel is worse. Higher borrowing costs compound the problem. Interest spending is set to exceed €90 billion next year, more than the defence or education budgets, and will keep rising as debt is refinanced at these spreads. That interest bill more than offsets any modest consolidation that might be legislated, widening the deficit and accelerating the debt-to-GDP ratio already near 120%. A ratings downgrade, which markets clearly anticipate, would raise funding costs for French banks, tightening credit, slowing growth and eroding tax revenues even further. That is the classic doom loop: higher yields → larger deficit → weaker growth and banks → even higher yields. Rating agencies lag markets but will eventually follow the pricing. France lacks a governing majority capable of sustained fiscal adjustment without triggering further social paralysis and unrest. Until that changes, the market correctly treats French sovereign debt as much higher risk than its official rating implies. It is really difficult to imagine a scenario where France gets its act together and avoids a debt crisis taking down the entire eurozone with it. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
Why isn't this the lead story on every news outlet, both broadcast and cable? The citizens need to know why they need to work two or three jobs to survive
15 of 15 New York Social Adult Daycares audited yesterday showed no record of a single meal, activity, or hour of supervision — just attendance sheets. These daycares are receiving millions from our Medicaid system and providing NOTHING in return —this is FRAUD!
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
NEW: Los Angeles County elections officials confirm in court filing that they have no way to verify U.S. citizenship for voters and they rely solely on a voter’s attestation when they check yes or no to being a U.S. citizen under penalty of perjury. This is part of ongoing lawsuit w/ Feds.
Massive concession: Los Angeles election officials just told a federal court they have no independent way to verify citizenship beyond what voters attest. (They simply take their word for it.) Under federal law, only citizens may vote in federal elections. Yet California has not acted on the list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens or agreed to set aside their ballots. American citizens’ votes are being diluted in California.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
California admits they knowingly allow anyone in the world — illegal, foreigner, trespasser — to vote in federal elections.
NEW: Los Angeles County elections officials confirm in court filing that they have no way to verify U.S. citizenship for voters and they rely solely on a voter’s attestation when they check yes or no to being a U.S. citizen under penalty of perjury. This is part of ongoing lawsuit w/ Feds.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10. Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years. Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
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Joey D’amelio II retweeted
Absolutely incredible… "Wedgewood Polls" just admitted they are a fake polling firm and made up their polls. Their fake polls have been posted in both the NYT and Nate Silver’s averages.
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