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🚨 BREAKING: ELON MUSK DELIVERS HIS SECOND SPEECH AFTER GINA HINOJOSA THREATENED TO TARGET HIS TESLA COMPANY IN TEXAS.
🗣️ “Gina is a Barack Obama and Kamala Harris puppet. She was planted there by the Democratic Party leaders to help them achieve their selfish goals. But you know what? They need me more than I need them. If they don’t want me, I will leave immediately and move to Florida.
I already know she will come after Cybertruck production, using taxes as an excuse, but we know what is really going on. She has been instructed by her deep-state leaders to target me because of how I supported Donald Trump during the election.
The fight is not really against me; it is against Trump. They want to use me to get to him, but they have forgotten that the President still has veto power.
Gina Hinojosa is a small lady. I am not afraid of her. All I do is laugh whenever she makes statements like that. Her actions will hurt her state and its people far more than they will hurt my company.
So, let’s see whether she genuinely has the interests of Texans at heart or whether she intends to use hatred to destroy what Texas has achieved over the years.”
My advice to Gina Hinojosa: Stop allowing political differences to influence economic decisions. Elon Musk’s political affiliation and support for Donald Trump should have nothing to do with how his businesses are treated in Texas.
Tesla creates jobs, attracts investment and contributes to the state’s economy. If you want Texas to prosper, focus on policies that encourage businesses to invest, expand and create more employment opportunities rather than threatening them with punitive taxes.
You may disagree with Elon Musk politically, but your responsibility as governor is to represent ALL Texans, not just Democrats. Don’t turn Texas into a state where businesses feel punished for supporting the wrong political party.
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Ron Baron asked Elon Musk how many CEOs live on site in an Airstream and work hands-on with everyone.
MUSK: “Airstreams are actually pretty nice... It’s parked right next to the power plant.”
“We built this power plant that’s producing over a gigawatt... in about a year, as opposed to normally about five years.”
“There is no upstairs.”
He walks the entire site up to five times a day. He’s pulled power cables “the size of an anaconda,” run fiber, wired switches, and worked on the power plant software.
“I try to do at least a little bit of everything, so that I’m not numb to the pain of the people who are actually doing it.”
“It’s not as though I’m sitting in an office and somebody has to come to me. I’m walking the floor, asking them questions actively.”
There’s a reason SpaceX is winning the compute race.
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Joe Rogan just hosted his most important episode ever after Republicans lost the midterms as White House insider Calley Means just exposed the real people who are running Trump’s presidency and lists key inner circle names like Susie Wiles, Jame Blair, Richard Walters, and the most powerful lobbying firm known as Ballard Partners:
MEANS: “Susie Wiles is the most powerful chief of staff in modern American history. She has taken a stranglehold on any policy decision. No policy decision gets done without her office giving it the okay. She was one of the top lobbyists in the country. It is impossible to describe to you how demonic this culture is.”
CONTEXT: Means, who resigned from the administration in OCTOBER, says he witnessed an extraordinary concentration of power inside the White House.
He alleges that cabinet secretaries and senior officials spent enormous amounts of time attempting to win favor with Wiles' office because of its influence over which policies could advance.
He then identifies several people he believes were central to that power structure:
SUSIE WILES: White House chief of staff.
JAMES BLAIR: A longtime Trump political strategist and former deputy White House chief of staff.
RICHARD WALTERS: Deputy White House chief of staff and longtime Republican political operative.
WALKER BARRETT: Senior White House adviser with extensive congressional experience.
But the most consequential part of his accusation concerns the CORPORATE LOBBYING INDUSTRY.
Before entering Trump's White House, Wiles had a career representing corporate clients, including working at the influential Washington lobbying firm BALLARD PARTNERS.
And the money involved in that industry is staggering.
According to federal lobbying disclosures, Ballard Partners collected approximately $88 MILLION in lobbying revenue during 2025, more than QUADRUPLING its reported revenue from 2024.
That made Ballard one of the highest-earning lobbying operations in Washington.
And in MAY 2025, the watchdog organization Public Citizen identified SIX FORMER WILES CLIENTS that had reported lobbying White House offices during the administration's first three months.
Those clients included companies involved in tobacco, automobiles, fertilizer, and other major industries.
The White House disputed suggestions of improper influence and said Wiles generally did not participate in meetings or decisions involving former clients.
Those disclosures establish real corporate lobbying relationships.
They do NOT, by themselves, prove that Wiles improperly favored those companies or directed policies for their benefit.
But Means argues that the broader culture of Washington is precisely what Trump promised to confront.
Now consider the extraordinary political timing.
IMPORTANT NOTES: On NOVEMBER 3, Democrats won control of BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS in a sweeping midterm defeat for Republicans.
And TODAY, NOVEMBER 6, Trump announced that Susie Wiles will leave the chief-of-staff position, with Stephen Miller taking over on November 9.
Trump PRAISED Wiles for her service and said she would continue working for his political operation.
F***ing yankees and multi-gender Californicators turned Texas blue hair for 2 years. F**k it! Good night!
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Samsung sold you a $1,300 Galaxy with its best settings switched off. On purpose.
You paid for every one of them. Nobody showed you where they are.
Here are the 6 to turn on tonight:
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1. Theft Detection Lock
If someone snatches your phone and runs, it feels the movement and locks the screen instantly.
Go to: Settings > Security and privacy > Lost device protection > Theft protection.
Turn on Theft Detection Lock and Offline Device Lock.
A thief gets a locked phone, not your banking apps.
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I say this as a career pilot. Military and commercial.
If you’re planning on flying commercially:
1) know the airline. They are not all created equal. Not even close.
2) know the equipment (aircraft) type. Generally speaking, the bigger, the safer. Don’t be surprised if you connect on a bug smasher.
3) the cheapest ticket is not the best ticket. It’s usually the worst. There’s a reason behind that. Your safety ain’t it.
4) different airlines have different aircraft maintenance. The big ones “usually” use in-house employees (way better). The cheaper airlines subcontract theirs, normally to Mexico or Central America.
5) pilot training is generally consistent across all the companies but the bigger names have long-established programs that have been proven for decades. That’s big.
6) international carriers often don’t have the same vetting procedures in hiring.
7) “feeder carriers” are not mainline. Different hiring standards. Same name, different airline.
8) I’m sure there’s more.
More proof that fear mongering engagement farming jerks like @RealAlexJones are full of shit. Too bad wasting his time and talents on bullshit fake news and instead being a real journalist like @nickshirleyy
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A man has paid $65 a year for a Costco membership for 11 years straight.
That is $715 total. Every year, same routine. He walks in through the front doors, grabs a rotisserie chicken, a giant pack of paper towels, a 48-pack of something he does not need, and a $19 sample-table impulse buy. He leaves with a $214 receipt, loads the trunk, and drives home.
That was his entire Costco experience. For 11 years. He thought he was a smart shopper because he bought in bulk.
Last month his brother-in-law, a former Costco warehouse manager with 14 years inside the building, watched him unload the trunk in the driveway and shook his head.
"You're paying for a membership you've never actually used."
"What are you talking about? I'm there every week."
"You've never checked the price tags for the little asterisk. You've never asked for a price adjustment. You've never filled a prescription there. You've never booked a trip through Costco Travel. You've never done the math on the Executive upgrade. You've never used the free warranty extension. You've never gotten a tire installed, an insurance quote, or a hearing test. You've never once pulled into the gas station. And you buy the brand names on the shelf while the Kirkland version sits right next to it."
"You shop the front of the store. The part they designed to make you spend. I'm going to show you the part they designed to save you money."
He pulled out a notepad and wrote down 10 things. Some take 30 seconds. Some take 2 minutes. Together they turn a $65 membership into hundreds of dollars back every single year.
He went back the next day. His first trip took 20 minutes and saved him $83 before he even reached the register.
Here is every single thing he wrote on that notepad 🧵
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Young Athletes Dying More?
The data suggests 'Yes' AND tells you why....
If you are wondering whether or not the perception of young athletes dying to excess is real... while it is 10 per week, only 5% of the 5 - 54 male excess mortality...
Yes, it is likely real using Sudden Cardiac Death Excess Mortality Ages 5 - 21 and Males only as a proxy.
6-sigma, 2200 deaths, and 56% elevated
Yes, this is caused by the mRNA vaccine as the highest-sensitivity causal candidate mechanism.
Generically engineered spike protein poison. Follow @EthicalSkeptic for the real data
Jalen Hurts is out for the season with blood clots in his lungs.
He joins Victor Wembanyama, Damian Lillard, Zack Wheeler, Ausar Thompson, Brandon Ingram, Taylor Moton, and Chris Bosh on a list that keeps getting longer.
These are some of the fittest people on the planet.
What’s actually going on here?
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I like this... 🙂
I bow to no false god
Give me the open water
Give me the thing I do not know...
AI video I made of @EthicalSkeptic. Excuse the repetitive clips. They still somehow work with the sound. Will post lyrics below.
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AI video I made of @EthicalSkeptic. Excuse the repetitive clips. They still somehow work with the sound. Will post lyrics below.
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$KTA
Deutsche Bank is weeks from launching institutional crypto custody for Bitcoin, Ether, and stablecoins — with tokenized deposits and digital bonds planned next.
Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) sits on Deutsche Bank’s Global Advisory Board. He’s also an investor in Keeta, the L1 purpose-built to connect traditional banking rails (Visa Direct, bank deposits, multi-currency fiat) with blockchain settlement — natively, with protocol-level compliance and extreme throughput.
Banks are building the custody and issuance layer.Keeta is building the network that sits between those banks, cards, stablecoins, and AI agents.
When the big institutions go live on the asset side, the infrastructure that already speaks both languages becomes the critical path.
That’s the setup.
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Thirty years of value chain strategy taught me these two things:
In any market, be it commodities, products, supplies, information/intelligence, equities, governance, currencies, or even science - always ask, "Who creates the value? Who bears the risk? Who captures the margin?"
The highest achievement of ethical commerce is not compelling participants to behave fairly. It is designing a market in which fairness becomes economically rational.
It is much easier to solve a value chain market imbalance problem than it is to be heard ...and harder still, to change minds over it.
The bifurcated, quasi-Hegelian rancor over Capitalism versus Socialism has, as usual, served as a red herring - conditioning minds to the point that they cannot comprehend what a value chain even is.
The problem is not capital - but rather, a poverty of mind.
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Successful ECDO Prediction - A Clean Match 😎
Comparing Fractal Earth - Connecting Earth's Crustal Patterns (Master Divisor)
and
ECDO Concept Simulation Engine for ECDO predicted State 2 Equator (Equator)
3 perspectives.
Confirms @nobulart 2024 work on shear focal points.
h/t @Spelled_thusly who found this comparative. 👍
